It makes me so sad that so many #disabled people take on society's view of them as deficient, shameful, and deprived. We internalize and individualize systemic #ableism and then blame ourselves for our misery.

It just shows how badly a #DisabilityPrideMonth is needed...

I'm sad for my younger self because I grew up thinking the same way. And indeed even my current self: I'm not totally free of internalized ableism, probably never will be. But at least now I have a better chance of spotting it.

For all the jokes about queer wrath month following queer pride month (tbh it's summer, I was hoping for queer sloth month!), really I think we're still at the stage of disability wrath more than we are at disability pride.

Maybe it's hard to access pride when there's still so much lacking, so much failing, so many people isolated and believing the worst of themselves because they get that message everywhere every day. Wrath feels like an earlier stage than pride!

@bright_helpings Disability grrrrr month lol.
I like the 'not ashamed' angle of it as I used to be.