Last week, kids in the street shouted at me and my partner, who is also disabled, in the street. They directly referenced the show South Park, and the only disabled character within it, Timmy. They repeatedly said and shouted his name at us in the street.

While I am well experienced in ableism, in direct and indirect hate from others. But for the first time in my life I experinced being directly shouted at in the street the other day.

I don’t really know what to say about this, even though I am writing this post days later, I don’t know how to process the emotions from this. It was so direct, so unexpected.

Exclusion is everywhere in the world. Inaccessibility is in every building. It is everywhere, like a constant background noise to my existence. But it perhaps feels the strongest in other people’s words.