I would like to nap now.

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If you cannot respect a person fully while understanding that they cannot do certain things due to disability, that is ableism. Full stop. Denying that disability disables people doesn't help that, but it does push severely disabled people and people who can't fake being less disabled than they are further into the margins. It's really not even helpful to people like me (white, mildly disabled people), and we're already the least oppressed people in the disability community. It's just so, so frustrating to be told this as an official policy when I know in my bones that it is untrue and harmful.

Source - Tammy Kirwan

Huh, it's almost like society, both socially and financially, is set up to specifically benefit people who have monogamous relationships and get married and punish people who don't partner or get married. It's almost like there are financial benefits that exist specifically to incentivize people to get married and have kids and be a nuclear family. It's almost like it was very culturally normal until very very very recently to just not have any deeper platonic relationships after you get married, meaning that single people past a certain age just get left behind and get treated as spinsters or loser bachelors. It's like life just is not designed for single people to be able to easily participate and survive while still being single. Huh, very weird. I'm sure marriage will fix this.