I have always been fond of music, especially when I’m feeling down. Now, I don’t think there’s enough popular songs about disability and how we struggle each day. But I stumbled across a song the other day that, while it’s not about disability, I’ve been listening to quite often when I feel like I failed somehow. When all that’s happening is really just me struggling and making it through another day, for better or for worse, I like to remind myself that I am perfectly incomplete, but I am good the way I am. I hope that maybe it helps you too.
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It would be very helpful if there was an explanation included for the mechanism that makes usage of the mentioned words ableist. I can not give a better explanation to this but a very simplified example would be:
It would be cool if there was an academic source on this mechanism.
It’s a lot to ask of any community to spell out exactly why certain things are bad for them, but unfortunately it is often the only way to get people to actually consider what you’re asking of them.
I’ll try to find an academic source tomorrow if I can, otherwise I think your two sentences are good additions that I’ve put into the document. Thank you very much for your input!
this is quite strange to me, all sighted people are temporarily blinded on a regular basis and often in physically unpleasant ways that we avoid when possible.
I think maybe we need to switch out “blinded by” with the example in the document “You’d have to be blind not to see it”, as we explained that “blinded by” is something that can be non-ableist in context, while the second example can’t be. Would that make it more understandable?