Do you ever find it frustrating when others treat you in a way they wouldn’t like? And even more angering when their behavior seems so casual to them while they act in a derogatory way towards you?
I think most, if not all, of the disability community has experienced this in one way or another — being a subject of adversity, being seen as different and therefore treated as such.
Every time such injustice is felt or observed, the wound blisters even more. Every time it feels like I or the disabled community has been treated as less than or put to the back of the queue, it just highlights and hammers home this ideology, swallowed, not even chewed by society — of disability being seen as the worst thing you can get.
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