I don’t think nondisabled people realize how callous it is to say “maybe you weren’t good enough” when we point out we were kept out of a dream of ours.

The truth is, we don’t know. No one takes us seriously. You don’t build accessible infrastructure. You dont know how

To critique us in a way that challenges us but doesn’t blame our disabilities. You tell us it’s kinder on us to just not try, so when it comes to us interacting with the industries and communities we want to be a part of, we aren’t given leeway to succeed or fail without

The spectre of our disabilities possibly being the reason we “aren’t good enough.”

And to be honest, I think some of you know that when you say it.