There are a ton of emergency preparedness plans whose official stance on physically disabled people is to leave them behind. Disability activists have been sounding this alarm for years.
Yeah, I keep trying to impress on the Covid Conscious folks that this abandonment they’re experiencing is nothing new and they should be seeking solidarity with and learning from the communities who have been dealing with this long before them. Not having a lot of luck.😅
I feel this. There are also a lot of people, both temporarily and permanently disabled, who have just never thought of themselves as disabled and will get very upset if you imply otherwise. I’ve had that experience talking to people about long covid. It’s frustrating.
I have bouquet of hidden disabilities, which don’t in and of themselves prevent me from socially useful labor. But they do impact my ability to work to surplus consistently, and my ability to be a palatable job applicant to a capitalist firm. The violence of capitalism is far and above my primary disability, vastly overshadowing any issues intrinsic to the differences in my body. And it will come for all the “health” chauvinists.
never thought of themselves as disabled and will get very upset if you imply otherwise.
I made it to adulthood before becoming disabled and I immediately began milking that shit. Oh your store isn’t ADA compliant? I’ll totally run things over and knock shit off shelves and dare some petty bourgeois small business owner fuck to do something. I’d key people’s cars who park in handicap spots but I know sometimes people forget, not all disabilities are visible, and people put their sticker in the glove box when it’s not in use.
The two groups of people who don’t necessarily have a disability but are seen by others as disabled are the deaf and neurodivergent.
Thank you for doing that labor though, comrade. It is fucking brutal how little people care about our disabled folks.
