Is autism a disability? Is toadflax a weed? - Fergus Murray - Medium
The social model of disability sees disability as arising from the interaction between a person and their environment. Conventionally, we distinguish this from a person’s built-in impairments…
Great piece - you have extremely similar views to me. Weeds can be food for us as well as loads of creatures (& shelter/bedding for some of them - or us if we can be bothered to turn nettle into thread & turn that into a sheet. Which is a lot of faff). & social model should be more understood by all
Thank you! No, I don't think I've come across that before.
The social model is obviously getting better and better known, but yeah, it's a real problem that it isn't more widely understood!
We should be teaching about it in school, etc.