Anyone ever thought what it would be like to have an exclusively #blind or even an exclusively #disabled #society …? 🤔

I honestly think that, in some ways, it would be a pretty good deal, though I would fear for #LateralAbleism within it, if it were #mixed #disabilities … I mean, I know how the #wider #DisCon often treats (excludes) us #blind folk, so…

Holiding a mirror to #LateralAbleism & #DisabilityDenial on the #BirdSite:
“I picked up a particularly feisty “think yourself free of your trauma & you’ll “heal” your chronic illness like I did - people who don’t heal are choosing to be victims and disability is a bad word” troll tonight. Whoops.
Someday, I’ll learn not to poke the wasps’ nest.”
For reference: response was to a comment about permanent physiological damage in my central nervous system from #MultipleSclerosis

Holiding a mirror to #LateralAbleism & #DisabilityDenial on the #BirdSite:
“I picked up a particularly feisty “think yourself free of your trauma & you’ll “heal” your chronic illness like I did - people who don’t heal are choosing to be victims and disability is a bad word” troll tonight. Whoops.
Someday, I’ll learn not to poke the wasps’ nest.”
For reference: response was to a comment about permanent physiological damage in my central nervous system from #MultipleSclerosis

My #ActuallyAutisticTruth is that in my family (at least one side of it) autistic is an insult which is always aimed at relatives, my actually autistic truth is that #LateralAbleism if not the worst kind of ableism is the one that hits closest to home