thatdiabolicalfeminist:

einsteinbrosofficial:

disabled people shouldn’t have to  disclose their disability to get treated fairly

like u can’t go treating people like shit for being weird or for shit you don’t think makes sense & only turn your ass around when they admit to you they do that shit bc they’ve got [x]

like! you can’t only respect people once they’ve been forced into disclosing highly personal information to you

don’t be shit in the first place

and like this shit goes for a LOT of things! like:

• acting harmlessly “weird” in literally any way
• being exhausted all the time/saying they’re too tired to do stuff/needing o sit down when you’re not tired
• taking a lot of meds, otc or not
• talking a lot/having times where they don’t wanna talk verbally at all
• asking, respectfully, for things that take very little effort from you but are mildly “weird” like not wanting to be touched, asking you to repeat yourself a couple times cos they didn’t hear, needing closed captioning on
• using hand sanitizer/antiseptic after touching you or your pets etc (it’s not an insult!!)
• not wanting to go to crowded events
• having intense interests that you think they’re a little too into

Like fun story, your litmus test for “should I be an asshole to this person” should be “are they hurting anyone”, cos if it’s just “do i think they’re weird” you’re literally just enforcing boring regressive social rules that assume everybody’s brain and body should work exactly the same way!!

Even if your target isn’t disabled this time, you’re still reinforcing ableism by demanding obedience to rigid abled standards as “normal” and punishing variation.  Disabled people need the normalization of variation, and honestly the whole damn culture benefits from it too.