Winter Jo   ❄️Mar 13, 2024

for fucks sake

why isnt there like... a class on known disabilities in school

literally, i just learned about Visual Snow, something that i feel like i should've known is A Thing for ages and ages, not all disabilities are visible, why the fuck are we not increasing awareness of them???

knowledge of these things *allows* people to understand and/or anticipate them, it also decreases the whole "you're just making this up" since whatever you learn in school often is more trusted than whatever people learn "random people" to trust for

seriously, some people live with this shit, and nobody knows about it

literally 1 or 2 classes, just listing the various types, or the various categories, or the ways people *can* have disabilities, would be immensely helpful

arghhhh

Show threadValdus

@ShadowJonathan I got lucky and found out my vision was weird in 2012, and learned it was visual snow in 2016, but I get what you mean. One issue is that there are simply so many rare diseases, the something like 20% of people have one, but they're probably the only person you'll meet who has that particular issue.

It would definitely be good to have standard practices to raise awareness of more common disabilities so people can at least know they exist, but we also just need way more cultural acceptance that lots of people just have weird issues they have to deal with.

Mar 13, 2024 at 8:42pmWeb