BroadwaybabytoPeople are afraid of disability and chronic illness.
Ableism, combined with capitalism, has conditioned us to see value as directly tied to economic productivity.
If someone thinks about disability, it goes like this:
“I won’t ever become disabled because I’m healthy”
“If I do become disabled I will be the exception who gets cured”
“If medicine can’t cure me I will cure myself, I will try harder”
“Those disabled people just don’t want to get better”
they won’t understand until it happens to them, at which point many will say:
“I had no idea it was this bad!”
You know what they almost never say?
“I’m sorry”
#disability #chronicillness #worldMEday #millionsmissing #ableism #eugenics
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