It is genuinely wild that I have a disability that I regularly see a specialist for and yet I have never considered myself disabled because my accessibility device is considered a fashion item.

Genuinely curious how much of the population would be considered disabled if you included glasses wearers, because I honestly forget there are people out there who don’t need glasses.

Calling myself disabled because of my farsightedness and astigmatism feels disrespectful to “real” disabled people but maybe the real disrespect is that other accessibility devices aren’t as normalized as glasses.

Also I am aware that people far more knowledgeable than me have been having this conversation and there are lots of thoughts and debate about this framing from disability activists and advocates.

TBH it doesn’t feel that different from the question I had about “queer”: does expanding the boundaries of the label increase empathy and political will or does it obscure the most marginalized voices?