I got told I needed to be more positive in my opinion of disability, when stating that I don’t think it’s a positive to wish someone could walk.

I understand that people have their own opinions and situations they’ve been through. But this post stated that everyone who can’t walk wants to walk.

Really this isn’t about being able to walk but it is about being disabled and wishing you weren’t. While we all wish we could change things sometimes, generally I don’t wish that I wasn’t disabled or that I could walk. I just wish I didn’t face the ablesim of society.

I was told today that believing this is negative in some way. When I said that suggesting all disabled people don’t want to be disabled is the same as suggesting someone shouldn’t want to be black because it’s easier not to be. This was apparently too much for the person I was talking to.

What bugs me here is that as a minority disabled people are not given the same respect to want to exist, even by other disabled people, than other minorities. To suggest that we should want that seems a step to far for some people.