#anyway the attitude of 'guilty until proven innocent' for disabled people is just another arm of ableism | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

uncanny-tranny · 1 year ago

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I posted something to this effect on my other blog, but it's been on my mind and essentially begging me to talk about it again so...

This post is dedicated to the people who might have caused their disability or may have made it worse in some way or another. This post is dedicated to people who haven't done the "right things" in the past, who weren't perfect, who weren't flawless robots.

Regardless of why you're disabled, you still need and, most importantly, deserve any accommodations for said disability. You cannot separate the "good disableds" from the "bad" ones. You are never required to prove that you're "innocent" before people are compassionate about your disability. Do not for a minute be convinced otherwise, for your own sanity.

#disability #disability positivity #ableism #ableism tw #(just for the implication)#maybe i made my hearing worse by listening to loud music. maybe not!#but regardless of *why* i don't always hear something i still deserve the space to go 'hey wait can you say that again...?' or whatever else #anyway the attitude of 'guilty until proven innocent' for disabled people is just another arm of ableism #and if you want to contribute to that by forcing us to prove ourselves then... fine but that's not a good outlook regardless #this is just something i have been thinking about again and again and again #like... part of the reason i made my disabilities worse is because i had access to NOTHING at the time #so my only recourse was to... do (essentially) nothing

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