#the UK is honestly super patchy in terms to accessibility for people with disabilities

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I was surprised when I found out from a petition made by Rose Ayling-Ellis that parents of kids who are born deaf don't get free sign language lessons. Like I've looked in the past since I was curious and wanted to learn BSL, and those lessons are not cheap! How are kids and parents meant to communicate with each other if one party can't learn the language that will be accessible to them both

It's interesting reading the takes on Last Twilight and how many people are rolling their eyes at the Association of the Blind not being portrayed as more accessible. And maybe in real life they do an incredible job, I have no idea. But the lack of accessibility - is not unrealistic.

I used to work for the Department of Human Services in my state. For almost ten years. And this department included Disability Services. Which most people would assume means that the department as a whole would know very well just how to make spaces accessible to a wide range of disability.

I also had a close friend and co-worker who was in a wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy. When I tell you the shit she had to deal with in her workplace - where people went for disability services. She got moved to an office where she couldn't get even into the bathrooms, ffs.

I had another co-worker, a manager, also in a wheelchair, who went to an office that doesn't serve the public, and buzzed to be let in for a meeting. They immediately said through the intercom, "we don't serve clients here". She was a fucking manager, and they took one look at her and made an immediate snap judgment.

After seeing Moonlight Chicken and this first episode of Last Twilight, I am curious about what P'Aof has experienced or seen in regards to disability in Thailand and how it is treated. Because it seems to me that the lack of accessibility is the point he's trying to make. And this is a good opportunity for all of us to look around, and see how we are failing people with disabilities in our communities.