I AM THE GODDAMN BATMAN.

Now while racism and sexism are difficult, ableism is…trickier.

First of all, some people don’t even know what ableism is. If you are one of those people, I shall explain for your benefit. Ableism is discrimination in favour of able bodied people, and recently the definition has been expanded to that of able minded people as well. Basically, it’s being discriminatory against a disabled person.

But the thing is, so many people are unaware that language they’re using, or something similar, is actually quite ableist. For example, any joke made at an autistic person’s expense is ableist. When I told my friend that, he was honestly quite shocked.

Tiny things that we’ve normalised as a society are actually ableist. For example, complaining about slow walkers, slow talkers, people not explaining things in the normal way. Getting frustrated at these things is fine, but when you complain and say “Ugh, I HATE people who walk slow!” That is ableist, as the slow walker may not be able to walk faster, or they maybe can, but not without pain or discomfort.

But we do it subconsciously. Sometimes we can’t even help it, or realise it. One of the most common and tiniest things is goggles and glasses. If there is a situation where a person is required to wear goggles, but the person has glasses and can’t put the goggles on, it’s subconscious ableism. Now this can easily be avoided by also bringing along a pair of goggles which are designed for fitting over glasses, but the problem in the beginning still remains.

We have ableism engrained in us, and honestly, it’s so disappointing. For example, one of my very good friends has a habit of making autistic jokes and calling people “retarded”. Even after I told him I was autistic, and that I wasn’t very comfortable with it after years of knowing about it and adapting my life and choices to work with it. He said he struggles because “the jokes are funny.”

Yoooo lemme bless your dashboard

when people pretend people wearing camo are invisible

calling random animals “weird looking dogs”

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