July is #DisabilityPrideMonth
Wait, disability ... pride? Why would someone be proud to be disabled?
One of the most important aspects of disability pride for me is to counter the shame. The shame of “being different,” the shame of “needing help,” the shame of “being a burden,” the shame from the humiliation and abuse I have experienced.
Disability pride gives me the chance to counter the shame by saying, “I am disabled, and I am proud to exist and be who I am.”
@TanekRune You are noticing that the thing I described has nothing to do with education?
Also, fighting against discrimination for disabled people has very little to do with education at this point. Instead, it needs societies and governments to fundamentally subscribe to address well known issues.
We shouldn't counter shame with pride. We should counter it with self-respect.
I am disabled too (various mental health disorders) and I don't feel at all ashamed of it. Nor do I feel proud of it.
I think people should feel proud of things they have accomplished, but they shouldn't feel ashamed about not accomplishing things, especially if they physically can't due to a disability.
That's not to say people shouldn't push themselves though, or creatively look for ways they can be productive despite their disability.
agree :) if a special month floats hope in the community then why not?
i think that the disabled should be proud of accomplishing the seemingly impossible every fing minute of every fing day doing what needs done fighting against those who mess with or bully them taking shit from powerfully ignorant fools refusing to understand... yet. disabled peoples know firsthand the painful truth: time is unrelenting and sooner or later its bwahahaha
@sophie isn't "pride" simply the opposite of the word "shame"?
Seems like a pretty obvious word to use to me?
@loke It is actually pretty common that people are initially confused by the concept of the disability pride month. And that's okay.
Abled people, because they learned that disability is just something dreadful that should be hidden at all cost and could solely be seen as a misery to be bemoaned.
Disabled people because it can take decades to even come to terms with the shame we have bottled up and the internalized idea of not being worthy of being proud of our existence.
Countering shame is indeed the pure essence of Pride as a cultural practice and I'm 100% here for July #DisabilityPrideMonth - that is awesome!
@sophie Growing up as the child of a disabled person, and now having physical disability due to #LongCovid, to me disability pride month is important.
There's a portion of society who do wish my parent hadn't been allowed to have me or my sibling. They would have preferred that parent was out of sight.
So being visible and actively advocating for our rights to be treated as humans, to be able to live out in the open is a radical act.
We shouldn't be ashamed of our existence.
@onepict I find the attitude towards disabled parents in society incredibly scary. Just another aspect of eugenics that never really went away.
Wish you a proud month!
@sophie it is kinda difficult, because while you grow up with disability being normalised because there's a family member, on the other hand you still end up internalising some ableism because of society.
Especially working in FOSS.
https://dotart.blog/cobbles/foss-conferences-and-covid
I hope you have a good pride month as well.
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