fancyfade:

along the lines of my last reblog

disability activism is Shit ™ if the argument is “well we’re just like you”

if you argue “disabled people have value because we can contribute to capitalism” you put down people who cannot work or contribute to capitalism (and there were always be disabled people who cannot work)

You can’t say “we autistics are good because we can experience empathy” because low or no empathy people (autistic and allistic) exist and deserve respect. You can’t say “Respect me because i have a mental illness but i’m not like, cr*zy or anything I don’t hear voice lol” because people who hallucinate and people w/ psychosis exist and deserve respect

you can’t say “disabled people are good because we are just like abled people except (blank)” because there will always be disabled people who are not like abled people, who cannot do the things abled people can do. Respect for disabled people should not be based on meeting an abled standard. It should be given because we’re people, not because we act a certain way.