Your disability advocacy isn't worth shit if it doesn't extend to hoarders by the way. Those houses you see on the channels of people who clean hoarders' houses for free? PEOPLE, alive human beings, who deserve rights and respect just like every other human being, own those "filthy/disgusting" houses. If you can't extend your advocacy to those people you're not an advocate. Btw.
How the fuck do you think they're ever going to reach out for help if they see everybody all the time shitting on them for being "disgusting" or "lazy" for something that spiraled out of their control due to depression, or ocd, or not being able to clean, or not having anyone to clean, etc etc etc. Living in a hoarding situation doesn't make anyone a bad person or filthy or undeserving of basic respect and love.
This this this this so much. I follow a YouTube channel of a British lady who is a ray of sunshine and not judgemental at all. (She's been getting a bit clickbaity lately and playing up the shock value but I digress) But she is constantly reminding her audience that these people whose houses they see at their worst are human beings deserving of help and respect. One of the cases was of a woman and a child who required her assistance twice. And if you look at the comments shit gets from "aww poor baby girl having to grow up like that" to "maybe some people shouldn't be allowed to breed" really fast. The moment we decide someone isn't worth our compassion eugenics sets in alarmingly fast. And people would go through vigorous mental gymnastics to justify it too.
Fascism can infiltrate every facet of society, even shock value oddly satisfying hoard cleanup videos.
