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"Disagreeing with a Disabled person isn& #39;t ableist."
You& #39;re right! Disagreeing with a Disabled person isn& #39;t (inherently) ableist! And no one is saying it is!
So what IS ableist?
[a (non-complete) list/thread] /1
You& #39;re right! Disagreeing with a Disabled person isn& #39;t (inherently) ableist! And no one is saying it is!
So what IS ableist?
[a (non-complete) list/thread] /1
It& #39;s ableist to insist you know a Disabled person& #39;s body better than we do.
(Hint: We live in our bodies 100% of the time, which is a much higher occupancy rate than your 0% of time spent living in our bodies! We& #39;re the experts on our own bodies!) /2
(Hint: We live in our bodies 100% of the time, which is a much higher occupancy rate than your 0% of time spent living in our bodies! We& #39;re the experts on our own bodies!) /2
It& #39;s ableist to assume a Disabled person is too incompetent to know our own needs. /3
It& #39;s ableist to assume you somehow have the magic answer, cure, or treatment for a Disabled person& #39;s disability. /4
It& #39;s ableist to refuse to believe Disabled people about our own lived experiences. /5
It& #39;s ableist to assume you& #39;re better equipped to know how to live with a person& #39;s disability than the actual Disabled person. /6
It& #39;s ableist to claim you know someone with the same disability who can do [X], thus the Disabled person you& #39;re talking to can do [X]. /7
It& #39;s ableist to say that something worked for you or someone else, so it& #39;ll work for every Disabled person or we& #39;re just making excuses. /8
It& #39;s ableist to declare a Disabled person just isn& #39;t trying hard enough if we say we can& #39;t do something. /9
It& #39;s ableist to assume a Disabled person is Disabled because they haven& #39;t tried [X], [Y], or [Z] thing. /10
It& #39;s ableist to presume that you can give medical advice to Disabled people for whom you are not personally treating as a health care professional. /11
It& #39;s ableist to think or say a Disabled person is because they don& #39;t "want to get better". /12
It& #39;s ableist to think you& #39;re equipped to give us unsolicited advice and that the Disabled person you& #39;re talking to is too incompetent to have already tried or otherwise considered the (generally very basic) thing you& #39;re about to suggest when we did not ask for advice. /13
It& #39;s ableist to say that you haven& #39;t personally witnessed ableism (note: you have seen it AND you& #39;ve participated in it—you just didn& #39;t realize it was ableist) and thus Disabled people are lying or somehow exaggerating about ableism being an issue, or that ableism is rare. /14
https://twitter.com/Jonatan_TheDick/status/1194723299961573376">https://twitter.com/Jonatan_T... /15
