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Buy that mobility aid.

Get the brace.

Continue to stand up to your doctors because you deserve to be listened to and WE WILL see a day where we don't have to do that anymore.

High support needs disabled people are both an asset and a priority.

POC disabled people are important to us.

Decorate your health aids/organisers (bedazzle that mobility aid, put a sticker on your AAC device, attach a keychain to your crash cart, etc.)

You CAN bring your aids out in public: you are not an embarrassment.

DO NOT APOLOGISE FOR YOUR BEING YOURSELF.

Not everything will apply to you, but it's important to acknowledge that so you have space for when something does (take this as you will).

Clock your friends', relatives', lover(s') AND your own (internalised) ableism.

Your hyperfixations are just as valid and interesting as everyone else's.

Disability. Accommodations.

You are to be treasured, not traded for.

And lastly: FUCK ICE and those pigs who detained an autistic woman for not complying FAST ENOUGH with them, because needing to have time to process and catch up is apparently a criminal offence. I know it feels like this never ends, but nothing is forever. We can make progress and KEEP it. There's work to be done, but we're doing it—just because I say that doesn't mean we stop now and pray: we keep going.

Please, abled folks, keep us in the conversation as we're the only minority that you can and likely will inevitably join. Help us make waves so YOU can have a better future, too.

happy pride! remember that being a transgender is everything but fiction. there are so many real historical figures from every century about whose transgenderism we aren't even aware of

I dont care if 9/10 of the people who use the wheelchair ramp arent actually in wheelchairs. As long as the 1 person who needs it has access to it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who use the automatic push button on the library door can actually push the door open themselves. As long as the 1 person who the door is too heavy for gets to use it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who buy the can tab opener, or the little guitar clamp that holds the chords for you, or the hand grip that helps you hold chop sticks, don't need any of it and just get it to "be lazy". As long as the one disabled person who needs it gets access to it.

I do not care. Oh my GOD I do not care. As long as there's a disabled person on this planet who the accessibility device will benefit, the accessibility device is necessary.