princessnijireiki:

ultraviolet-techno-ecology:

Every “Why my disability didn’t stop me from living” article written can be summarized as having access to resources materially and socially. 

Which results in a fascinating intersection between ableism and classism, as the resulting inspiration porn – used against disabled folk via the “Why are you more impacted than this person in the article” – essentially boils down to shaming people for not having access to the resources required to mitigate the disability. 

This also includes material access to accomodations, accessible housing, transportation, healthcare/treatment, mobility or sensory aids, physical or psychological therapy, the ability to either choose not to work or go to school in a certain kind of way in order to be healthy or excel (or the very real social capital of things like friends’/family’s financial support; educators or bosses willing to be flexible with & show kindness to the disabled person in question; and even peers who do not make work & school experiences hostile), etc.

It’s not always even just “this uplifted exceptional disabled person is an athlete because of money & time for training that your average person doesn’t have,” it’s also, “I can’t afford a bus pass,” “I don’t have benefits,” “my work history is crappy or I flunked out because of my disability so I’m stuck at a crappy minimum wage job at best,” or even just, “I am struggling to cope psychologically & emotionally with being disabled in the first damn place, let alone how the world treats me, and on top of that, how my friends and family and coworkers and people in parking lots or on the subway treat me, too.”