I’ve got 99 problems and I’m not dealing with any of them
Destroy the concept that you can’t be fat and disabled.
Destroy it.
Destroy the stigma that surrounds people who are overweight and in wheelchairs.
Destroy the photos of people riding electric wheelchairs in Walmart with long, hateful, fatphobic captions about how they’re lazy and entitled.
And I’m looking at every single member of the disabled community because we (and I say we because even I’ve been guilty of this) are just as guilty of this as the abled community.
Which is really, really, really unfair.
Because disability advocacy is supposed to be about showing how we’re all equal despite the differences in our bodies (and/or minds).
And it’s shocking that so many people will talk about how beautiful people with disabilities are in one breath and then will use their next breath to fat-shame overweight people with disabilities.
I’ll put it bluntly: If your version of disability advocacy is screaming at an overweight person in a wheelchair because “they don’t really need that chair, they’re just fat” then you’re not a disability advocate. You’re just a bully.
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