What are you going to do to challenge ableism?

Jackson makes great points about how meeting the challenges of disability is the collective responsibility of society.1 Ensuring physical accessibility to health services would be a great start. Begging strangers for help with the automatically closing doors on the so-called accessible toilets in a hospital is a humiliating example of the invisible work that disabled people have to do.2Clinicians are there for many of the events and procedures that imply or lead to disability. But simply establishing a diagnosis or even an effective treatment plan is often nowhere near enough.3So let’s try to be more specific:People are not either disabled or “normal”4Disabled people are often impressively resilient and smart. We manage multiple conditions 24/7, whereas “our” specialist might be thinking about one of our conditions for 30 minutes a yearThere’s huge diversity within the disabled community. Intersectionality—other forms of inequality or disadvantage—multiplies the challenges5Please don’t assume that our disabilities are…
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