"Is ableism an actual thing?"
Many of you don’t seem to believe that it exists so here are a few statistics and please keep in mind this is a very short list and doesn’t get into anything even as “trivial” as representation in the media or as specific as how high these numbers go when you include intersections of race and sexuality and anything besides binary gender
Being disabled in public was illegal in the United States until the mid-1970s (x)
Segregation of the disabled still exists; from designated parking spaces to refusal of hiring disabled people in visible jobs to denial of basic education (x)
Disabled people are still legally allowed to be paid slave wages, as little as $0.22 an hour (x)
To receive disability benefits, which can be around $700 a month, a United States resident can be required to not have any savings, to own any property, to never inherit money or property, to never have more than $2,000 in their checking account, to never work for anything above the aforementioned slave wages, as well as many other restrictions (x)
Disabled people, even simply the seeing or hearing impaired, often have their children taken away from them by social services for no reason (x)
Disabled women are twice as likely to victims of domestic violence as abled women (x)
Disabled women are less likely to seek help for their abuse, and oftentimes the little help the receive is not appropriate (x)
Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse over a longer period of time and suffer more severe injuries as a result (x)
Reports of sexual violence against disabled women range between 51% and 79% (x)
Forced sterilization was legal in the United States until 2014 and was most often performed on the disabled and/or women of color (x)
85% of disabled women have experienced domestic violence (x)
80% of women with intellectual disabilities have been sexually assaulted, and 50% of those women had been assaulted more than 10 times. (x)
Half of the people murdered by police officers are disabled (x)
Family members of disabled individuals are not only legally allowed to “put down” their disabled family member but they are often praised in the community and media as heroes for it (x)
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