Met up with a Fellow Cripple™ and we were talking about how quarantine is finally showing able-bodied people what being disabled is like.
You're stuck at home. You can't go and hang out with your friends. If you do, you're risking your health. You cannot access the world around you. If you're unemployed, you see just how hard it is to get a job. If you're on financial assistance, you see just how much it doesnt cover all your necessities. You're scared about your health. You're subjected to the world of working/studying online, and depending on your situation, the tech is either not ideal or wholly unreliable.
Quarantine is showing able bodied people just what being house-bound is like, and a lot arent coping with it. And if this is how you feel after a month or two, imagine how disabled people who've spent years living like this feel?
