incurablehippie:
flutterflyinvasion:
Society demands that we keep overcoming, overcoming, overcoming. But we don’t have to. Nowhere is it written that to be a really real human you have to brute force your way through your limits. Nowhere is it written that not doing so makes you less worthy. For most people, constantly refusing to acknowledge that you have limits is seen as a problem. We all have limits & we are supposed to acknowledge them, know where they are, work within them.
But when you have a disability, it’s like everyone expects you to push past your limits all the time. They want to be inspired, or they want to not have to deal with the fact that a disability means “there are things I cannot and will never be able to do”, even as they expect me to know there are things I can do that they will never be able to.
So we are pushed to keep ‘overcoming’, and if we can’t we are failures and lazy. But if we can, we aren’t really disabled. It’s a no win either way. Our choices are be burned out or be looked down on even more, be told we aren’t disabled because we can do xyz or because we can’t.
Brilliant. That is all.
Re-reblogging for truth.
Fuck yes. My dad does this to me all the time, one particularly memorable email ended with him saying “They say it’s a permanent disability, but I don’t see how that would ever hold you back.”
…Really? Because I could list SO many ways. Like, number one, I can never have my dream job. I cannot work with big cats. You know why? BECAUSE I ONLY HAVE ONE LEG YOU FUCKHEAD. And oh yeah, the cancer will have killed me way before I could possibly get in a position to have a job like that. But clearly being an amputee with cancer would NEVER hold me back. That’s just from laziness! YOU’RE GONNA GO FAR, KID.
…Holy shit, I’m bitter.
(Source: djinnstorm)
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