As a disabled person who needs adaptions it's so easy to fall into thinking it's too much to ask of people, that you don't really deserve them, maybe you don't need them & you really are just lazy, & certainly you don't want to burden people by asking
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And this is exacerbated because if you need something you are made to ask. There's never a ready-made suite of accessibility options from which everyone chooses what they need; there's not even a basic understanding of the Equality Act
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Instead, you, with a life of being told to stop complaining, stop being a burden, stop thinking you have a right to actually flourish, start being grateful for being allowed to exist at all, with all the attendant exhaustion & eroded self-worth are forced to fight to even ask
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I don't think it's from malice, but it's often a learned thing that if people make disabled people do all the heavy lifting, eventually we just go away because we're shattered so that's the easiest way to avoid the problem of having us around
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And at the same time they can genuinely believe they're good and inclusive people, because "if you just make the case for something, we'll provide it"
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Many times the past few days I've found myself thinking how dare I even consider the idea of being provided with accessible communication during Covid so I can do my job. Fortunately I've caught myself at it, and my spouse has been excellent at reminding me
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& it was great to see @KF_West's reminder this morning of the importance of anger in driving change. Because the way we are treated as disabled people should make us angry. So onward & upward & no stopping (self-care excepted) till we make change happen.
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