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thethingything · 3 days ago

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I know this is just like, a general thing and people don't necessarily mean anything by it, but I fucking hate the phrases "go outside", "touch grass", and "chronically online" as responses to bad takes.

it just sucks being someone who's unable to leave the house most of the time due to disability, and then having to hear people constantly equating being indoors a lot and spending a lot of time online with having shitty opinions or being a shitty person.

and once again I know it's not that deep but I can't help but wonder how people perceive housebound disabled people if they associate being inside all the time with being shitty. I feel really on edge when people use these phrases while talking to me because even if they're generally supportive, the association between "this person sucks" and "this person doesn't go outside enough" makes me feel like people secretly think I'm terrible and are judging me because I spend most of my time indoors even if it's for reasons that are out of my control.

(ironically enough I'm pretty sure saying that this bothers me is the exact kind of thing that would make some people call me "chronically online" or tell me to go touch grass or whatever)

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #vent post #yes they're silly internet phrases and no people aren't thinking of disabled people when they use them #but like... if you see someone expressing a really bad take and your first thought is ''this person clearly spends a lot of time indoors''#then surely that means your brain associates ''spending lots of time indoors'' with ''having terrible opinions/being a shithead''#and I have to wonder what subconscious biases you might hold towards someone who can't go outside often if at all #even if you think you're supportive of those people #this post isn't directed towards anyone in particular. these phrases are just used so fucking much and it's exhausting seeing them so much #and it feels like if you complain you just get a bunch of people telling you to stop being so sensitive #and being like ''it's not that deep. nobody's thinking of disabled people when they say this stuff''#and like... yeah I can tell. it's the same as when people say slow walkers are the most annoying people on earth #or when they complain about ''picky eaters''#or any other example of something they find annoying that's often caused by medical issues #and then you say ''hey this is often caused by disability'' and they're like ''well I obviously wasn't talking about disabled people''#but it's clear they never even considered disabled people and are absolutely gonna be shitty to disabled people with that trait #and they'd rather act like you're too sensitive than stop to reconsider whether they were being ableist

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