(I can't be satisfied)

Physical ability is heavily adored throughout our society; professional sports, football, gymnastics, ballerinas, contortionists, members of the army, service people like firefighters and police, but it is not lost on me that putting this much pressure and risk on the body for so long and so early in life will lead to complications to health and physical ability in the long run. This is something people know but they do it anyway.

I really don’t understand the lack of action and involvement in disability politics when the people we honor so much have a higher chance of becoming disabled in the future. Injuries from their service, long-term strain from protecting us or entertaining us, but once disabled we just toss them aside?

In no way am I suggesting that these fields should be avoided for that reason, on the contrary, realistically, disability is a part of life. Many of us even correlate the elderly with disability; imagine them with walkers and wheelchairs or that they are hard of hearing, even mental/cognitive disabilities like memory loss or difficulty concentrating or processing.

I’m thinking this should be incentive, EVERYONE should care about disability politics, unlearning ableism, and care about things like healthcare and accessibility.