Okay, then, what’s up with all the disability posts?
First of all, becoming a person with a disability is the only way to suddenly join a minority group, without warning, at any time during your life. Also, most people will eventually acquire an age-related disability. The alternative is to die young. So, for all my fellow able-bodied and neurotypical folks reading this blog, a word to the wise: Support disability rights, support accessibility, and read some disability blogs. Chances are, you’ll make some awesome friends, and you’ll eventually benefit directly from increased access and civil rights for people with disabilities. Secondly, I think disability rights, community living, and biodiversity acceptance is the last great civil rights frontier. Or, at least, the last great civil rights movement I’ll see in my lifetime. I wasn’t old enough to fight for the ADA or support bus sit-ins and boycotts in my home state when they happened, but there’s still a lot of work to do. I was born and raised an activist, and that means when I see a m
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