There’s a weird hierarchy that I’ve been seen happening within the disabled community. Someone seemed to think that they have earned the right to be disabled. That whatever they’ve been through has given them their “badge of honour” and the right to call themselves disabled.
That’s what they want, they want to divide us. To tell us some of us have fought hard to be “normal” and it’s not our fault we lost, while others haven’t even tried. The amount of ableism it takes to place the value of a disabled person, on how hard they fought against their own body is concerning.
Disability happens to us all. It’s a matter of when, not if. You are disabled enough and in the right way, however you got there. Those of you that think you’ve somehow surpassed others to earn your space, think about why you think that.

If you’re disabled you’re disabled. I had someone tell me that I’m not disabled because I had a stroke and he didn’t understand that some people could be permanently paralyzed from a stroke.
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