Nondisabled people, I hope you will take this seriously. One day you are probably gonna be disabled, and the world is not kind to disabled people.

You're gonna be forgotten. You're gonna be mistreated. You are not going to be able to get around.
A lot of you completely ignore disabled people. You ignore the disabled community. Even those of you who say well I have a couple disabled friends. What are you doing to listen to what's going on, because it's gonna affect you one day?
Disability is the only marginalized group anyone can join at any time and you're not thinking about that. You don't want to think about that. I get it the world makes disability look scary, but as long as y'all keep your head in the sand nothing's gonna get better.
The biggest thing that I hear from people that are newly disabled is how shocked they are by how they're treated. They don't understand how disabled people can live being treated so poorly.
Once you become disabled people stop listening to you so it's not like you're really gonna be able to make a difference the way you would now as a nondisabled person.
This is on the nondisabled community to help make the world better for disabled people because nobody listens to us. But don't make it better for us. Make it better for yourself. Because you're going to be thankful you took the effort now to do something while you can.
Once you become disabled you become one of the invisible. Do your part now.

Listen to disabled people. Follow disabled people. Make an effort to interact with disabled people. Share their work, tweets, and other social media. Use your privilege to boost what they are doing.
I have people here on Twitter who profess to be my friends who have never even bothered to send me a single twitter message. How is that friendship?! A lot of you benefit by saying you know a disabled person... Stop making me your token.
Making disabled people make all the effort with relationships is ableist. Reach out to your disabled friends if you really truly care about them because a lot of them are probably thinking you really are not their friends and don't really care.
Support legislative efforts disabled people (not our parents, not people running organizations that are not disabled – actual disabled people) say are important. These issues will be important to you as well!
If they don't eventually affect you personally they're gonna affect the family member. The exception is if you are rich. But I'm guessing most of you are not.
Follow people like @SFdirewolf for information on legislation for disabled people.

She seems to have a lot of updated info on this.
You can follow @dominickevans.
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