the way that some non-severely disabled people, talk about severely disabled people is very odd.
there are ways to talk about how wide of a spectrum disability is and how not every disability is visible, terminal, severe etc. without bringing down severely disabled people.
i saw a comment that said "not every disabled person is a bedbound, paralyzed vegetable that can't be independent or do anything for themselves" and it kinda rubbed me the wrong way. i think it's very odd to jump to wording like that to disprove the idea that all disability looks like being bedbound, paralyzed, etc.
there are much better ways to get the same point across without being rude and ableist towards severely disabled people.
its not an isolated account either, i get and see lots of these types of comments/remarks from less severely disabled people and it gets increasingly frustrating every time and i'm not sure people realize that.
no, not every disabled person is bedbound or paralyzed or can't be independent, but jumping to calling severely disabled people vegetables and useless, amongst other things isn't a good look either.
additionally, at the beginning of the specific comment it said "society's collective idea of what a "real" disability is ..." , I think its important to add that we as severely disabled people are not inherently taken more seriously or treated with more care and validation than non-severely disabled people.
neglect and medical malpractice is rampant within high support needs communities and severely disabled care. also, i as well as many other severely disabled people i know have gotten repeatedly fake-claimed while being visibly and severely disabled. so to make a generalized statement about an experience that you do not have comes off as very odd.
i am not at all saying that people with invisible and less severe disabilities aren't treated poorly by society and the healthcare system, i know they do and i'm genuinely sorry that that happens, i wish it was different. however, when talking about your validity of being disabled, please keep your rude, ignorant, ableist comments about severely disabled people to yourselves.
please talk about your experiences with being disabled and keep raising awareness for your part of the spectrum, it is a very important conversation to have and i 100% support that. but also be mindful of the language you use and possibly ableist statements that you might be making in the process.
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