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friendly reminder that disabled people make up 16% of the population. don't make us an afterthought or an "exception" to your argument.

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growing up disabled means not knowing why you were uncomfortable with being called a r/tard when it was such a common "playful" insult and why your friends called you sensitive when you told them to stop.
i wish more media focused on the mental aspect of physical disabilities. but i don't want cheesy, melo-dramatic monologues about how shitty the characters' lives are #booktokstyle, i want them to show specific emotions that disabled folk have.
for example, i want to see how a physical disability can lead to other mental conditions, not quite enough to warrant a diagnosis but amplified traits still. i want them to have weird mannerisms or rituals that calm them down. i want to see them in complex relationships that aren't just build on inferiority complexes or that one disabled character finally finding someone who accepts them.
there are so many other strong feelings that can be represented onscreen, i want to see effort put in for character development like they do with neurotypical / able-bodied characters.
when you're disabled, expect all of your academic achievements to be undermined by your peers.
doesn't matter that you put in the work and effort to pass your classes, in their eyes, the professors will always give you a passing grade because they "felt sorry for you". doesn't matter if they're aware of your disability or not.
this followed me from childhood to adulthood.
"But we need to talk about how you shouldn't get to be lazy-" No we don't actually. Not when so many millions of disabled people are facing medical neglect, poverty, discrimination and abuse in the name of "defeating laziness"

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why do disabled folk need to be extraordinary at something to be considered worthy? it feels like 0 value is attributed to us otherwise. we have to be either really smart or creative (which, by the way, is only measured in results. e.g. you're either academically smart, or a complete dumbass), or if you're neither, you're pure/kind. doesn't matter if you're shitty or not. the same way people treat children or cute animals.
it always feels like we need to overcompensate with something to overwrite our "abnormality".