it also absolutely ignores the ways disability actually can lead to mental illness and very little of that is inherent to the disability. Some disabilities like ABI/TBI may bring on mental health symptoms and susceptibility, but many don't just make someone mentally ill. But how someone is consistently treated by the people around them, the people they encounter, and society at large, absolutely fosters an environment for mental health issues to grow. For people with disability that changes over time or who acquire their disability suddenly, the changes to their life can be very hard to handle and they may not have access to support that understands what they're experiencing. For people whose disability has been since birth, the constant battle of butting up against ableism and inaccessibility and the life goals nobody will support them with is incredibly emotionally exhausting. But when people think disability is miserable and mental illness inevitable, they never think of it like that. They don't think of the fact the mental health problems are still coming from the same stresses and lack of support that might cause them in any abled person. As soon as they don't recognise someone's life it's like they stop being able to understand the same ways we all need support when things are hard. Instead, it's treated like it sucks but it was always going to happen. That, or it's ignored, because they think you can only have one thing going on and being disabled is the only thing they see. It's not inevitable. We deserve support, not assumptions and ignorance.
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