Too many people judge the disabled for what we do to survive.
The truth is you can’t fathom what it’s like to live in a body that’s betrayed you.
To exist in legislated poverty with no reliable help or care.
To be left by the wayside to die and abandoned by almost everyone.
People will claim to understand.
They will try and empathize.
But then they say things like “if it were really that bad you would have support”.
Or “you just have to try harder and get another doctor”.
They don’t actually listen to us.
They talk over us.
They’re utterly convinced that they know better about our suffering, and that if we really wanted to get better we could.
We simply don’t want it bad enough.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Disabled people are incredibly resourceful.
We’re surviving in a system doing its utmost to kill us.
If “wanting” to get better was all it took, no one would be chronically ill.
If support showed up whenever it was truly needed, no one would suffer.
If healthcare helped, we would be lined up at the hospital doors.
Please don’t judge what you can’t understand
Try and realize it’s your own fear and denial that makes you need to believe everything is “fixable”… because you can’t fathom getting sick and never getting better
Disability comes for almost everyone… help us build a better world