*pinches bridge of nose*

Folks. Most Blind people have some vision. Most wheelchair drivers are physically capable of standing. Do we really have to do this "lol they lied" thing every time a disabled person lives their life without asking for permission?

Yes, that was a subtweet, and no, I'm not linking to the thing, because honestly this is not a "point and laugh at the asshole" situation. It's an "an awful lot of you don't know how disability works or that disabled people don't need your permission to live their lives" thing.

We've built a world that makes daily tasks easy for some people and hard for others. That's it. That's what disability is. We do not need to quibble over whether it is literally impossible for someone to do something. We can just say "hey, we should make that easy for everyone."

For example, I don't need my cane much anymore, but when I did, I was physically capable of walking a mile or more without it. Fast? No. Steadily? No. With enough energy left over to do anything else after? Big no.

But none of that was visible. What other people saw was that I could set my cane down for a sec if I needed my hands and walk —across a whole room even!— without it.

Here's a novel concept: I still deserved to be able to go places and do things that require moving around.

For me, having a cane meant being able to spend the whole afternoon at the mall with my friends, where without it, I couldn't. It meant being able to take public transit and do my own shopping and travel, and yes, fold my cane up and put it away when I didn't need it.

Anyway, I've said all this before and a million other people have too but for goodness sakes, let people live their lives. You do not need to police whether anyone "deserves" for daily life to be easy for them. The answer is yes. It's always yes.