Misa on Wheels
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The adventures of a girl on wheels... Rocking out🎶/Sit-skating & other adaptive sports🛹/Cosplay🧟♀️/Charcot-Marie Tooth (CMT)🧜🏻♀️/ Never slowing down. 💚
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No one should have to prove their permanent disability every year.
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When you have an invisible disability, people are often surprised what you CAN’T do.
When you have a visible disability, people are often surprised what you CAN do.
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Regular exercise and a healthy diet does not make a disabled person less disabled.
Succeeding in life does not make a disabled person less disabled.
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12% of people in the US have a mobility-related disability.
Not “less than 1%.”
12%. Literally millions of people.
That is more than 1 in 10 people that need mobility-related accessibility, such as ramps and zero-entry design, and countless others that would benefit from it.
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Disabled people do not owe anyone gratitude for bare minimum accessibility.
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“Feel-good” stories disabled people are tired of seeing:
The business that pats themselves on the back for hiring disabled employees.
Non-disabled people excited about a wheelchair user forcing themselves to uncomfortably stand or walk at a wedding.
Pity proposals to prom.
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If a disabled person tells you they can do something, trust them.
If a disabled person tells you they can’t do something, trust them.
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Companies: “We pride ourselves on our diversity!”
The diversity:
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🧑🏻🎤👴🏻👨🏻🦰👩🏻👩🏻🦰🧑🏽🦰👩🦽
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A reminder that the Paralympic Games begin on August 28, 2024. ✨✨✨
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Disabled people are allowed to have wants too, not just needs.
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Dear
@NintendoAmerica
,
Please make the wheelchair item in the game
@animalcrossing
function as a wheelchair and not just simply as a normal stationary chair. Thank you so much for the representation!
#AccessibilityMatters
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“It’s accessible once you get up the stairs” is not accessible.
“It’s accessible if you have someone to help you” is not accessible.
“It’s accessible if you can leave behind your mobility aid” is not accessible.
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There is no good reason why cashiers shouldn’t be allowed to sit.
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Having awards for perfect attendance is an ableist practice.
Unreliable health is not equivalent to being an unreliable person.
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Disabled people do not need to be content with the bare minimum.
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Gus or his dad probably won’t see the ableist comments circling the internet. But you know who will?
Fellow disabled people.
Parents of kids with disabilities.
Decent human beings.
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Disabled lives are worth living.
Disabled stories are worth telling.
Disabled voices are worth listening to.
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They call our needs “special” to make them sound unreasonable and extravagant.
They call our needs “special” so they can find an excuse not to accommodate for them.
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Things you should never be ashamed of: your cosplay, your body, your fandoms.
Thing you should absolutely be ashamed of: attending a convention during a pandemic.
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Outdated disability tropes:
A disabled character only concerned with a cure.
A disabled character whose only defining quality is their disability.
A disabled character constantly unhappy due to their disability.
A disabled character being played by an able-bodied actor.
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Inclusive bridal shop front window display in the U.K. featuring a mannequin in a wheelchair. 🌹
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Opposers to wheelchair-accessible dungeons in D&D: “Dungeons aren’t supposed to have ramps! This isn’t realistic at all!”
Also opposers to wheelchair-accessible dungeons in D&D: “My character is an undead wizard warlord who can literally cast magic and FLY.”
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Do not use the holiday season as an excuse to get sloppy about pandemic safety.
I don’t know about you, but I would rather lay low for one year than have my poor decisions be the reason that it is someone else’s final holiday.
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Why actual disabled people need to be consulted when designing for accessibility:
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Please make sure that your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion encompasses those with disabilities.
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Random stranger in the grocery store: “Can I loudly pray in public for your disability to be healed?”
Me:
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Non-disabled person: “The world does not need to adapt to “cater” to disabled people.”
Translation: “The world currently “caters” to ME, and I don’t care if anyone else has their needs met.”
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Disabled people belong at the beach.
Disabled people belong at the gym.
Disabled people belong at the concert.
Disabled people belong in historical places.
In ALL the places. Disabled people belong. 🩷
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Disabled people are allowed to have the same wants, goals, and dreams as non-disabled people AND should not feel burdensome for doing so.
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Accepting the existence of magic in a fantasy setting should not be easier than accepting the existence of disabled people in a fantasy setting. ✨
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What happens when the lines next to an accessible parking spot get blocked:
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Too many disabled people cannot afford to be disabled.
Read that again.
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Reminder that you are exponentially more likely to become disabled than to become a billionaire.
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Disabled people do not accomplish things “in spite of our disabilities.“
We accomplish things “in spite of” ableism and inaccessibility.
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Using a mobility aid is not giving up.
Requesting an accommodation is not giving up.
Asking for help is not giving up.
Accepting your disability is not giving up.
Doing anything that helps make life easier and better is not giving up.
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Disabled people do not need to be content with the bare minimum.
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Non-disabled people already have all of their accessibility needs met.
Disabled people asking for the same access is not “asking too much.”
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When discussing the impact of an epidemic, a message of, “Take extra precaution around those more susceptible to illness, as this may be very dangerous for them,” is a whole lot better than, “Don’t worry! It’s ONLY the elderly and those with other illnesses who may die!”
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Wearing a mask is not a “loss of freedom.”
However, being forced to stay inside for over 8 months straight because some people refuse to care about others certainly is.
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All homeless shelters should be accessible.
All women’s shelters should be accessible.
All storm shelters should be accessible.
Safety should always be accessible to everyone.
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Offering remote work is accessibility.
Having the ability to complete a degree online is accessibility.
Having ways for disabled people to achieve their goals, as opposed to being held back by arbitrary requirements, is accessibility.
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You cannot judge the severity or validity of a disability by its visibility.
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Disabled people are allowed to have wants too, not just needs.
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Please stop calling us “brave” for simply existing in public spaces.
It implies we don’t belong there in the first place.
Signed,
Disabled people everywhere
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Please stop doing this.
Signed, wheelchair users everywhere
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Things disabled people shouldn’t have to feel grateful for:
-being able to use the bathroom in public
-being treated with dignity and respect
-having equal access and rights
-their mobility equipment
-an outing without an awkward encounter
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The truth is that anyone can become disabled at ANY time.
Please consider this when you’re shoving us into corners, denying us the same access, talking down to us, & not bothering to provide accommodations.
Because, in the blink of an eye, this could become YOUR reality too.
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Baby crib designed for parents who are wheelchair users:
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Accessibility is not a privilege.
Accessibility is not an optional convenience.
Accessibility is a necessity.
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The media often refers to Paralympian athletes as “participants” instead of “competitors.”
It is definitely time to change this. 🥇
#NotPlayingGames
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You are not obligated to share your diagnosis with strangers. 👩🦼✨
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We need to stop requiring permanently disabled individuals to keep providing proof that they are still disabled every year.
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If something is available to the public, it needs to be accessible to ALL of the public.
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Disabled people do not need to hide or “tone down” the way their disabilities present to make themselves more palatable to ableists.
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Disabled people are business owners.
Disabled people are spouses.
Disabled people are teachers.
Disabled people are parents.
Disabled people are people.
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A disabled person enjoying their life does not make them less disabled.
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A video of a disabled person forcing themselves to walk across a stage at graduation or uncomfortably stand out of their wheelchair for a few seconds to dance at a wedding is not inspirational.
It tells disabled people that we are only worthy if we can accomplish such “feats.”
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I often think about how able-bodied individuals think we are putting ourselves down when we refer to ourselves as “disabled.”
And I think that alone says quite enough about how society views those with disabilities.
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There should be more than one accessible room in an entire hotel.
There should be photos of accessible rooms and bathrooms on the hotel website.
There should be actual disabled people consulted when designing accessible hotel rooms.
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Disabled people: “We deserve the same access as non-disabled people.”
Ableists:
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Part-time wheelchair users are just as valid as full-time wheelchair users. 🩷
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Disabled people should be able to find houses that meet their needs just as easily as non-disabled people do.
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Feel-good stories about people with disabilities get shared significantly more than stories about their real life struggles.
It’s more comfortable for non-disabled people to tell themselves we’re doing just fine, instead of acknowledging how badly the system is failing us.
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Disabled people do not need to be content with the bare minimum. 💚
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If a child asks for the wheelchair-user Barbie, and you’re on the fence about getting it…get them the wheelchair-user Barbie! 🩷👩🦽🩷
You’re not taking it away from a child with a disability. You’re creating demand for such representation so that companies continue making them.
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Ableists: “Why the heck are disabled people not OK with the things non-disabled people wouldn’t be OK with?!” 🤯
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Ah awesome, an accessible parking spot right next to the…ramp.
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Choosing to use a mobility aid or assistive device is not “giving up.”
Making such a choice is saying, “This device will help make things easier, make moving less painful or tiring, and allow me to live my life to the fullest.“
To me, that sounds like pushing forward. 💚
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Reminder that using a mobility aid is not “giving up.”
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There is no reason that all public pools shouldn’t be accessible. 🩵♿️🩵
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The pandemic showed us just how many jobs could have been made easily accessible/work-from-home at any time.
The fact that accommodations disabled people had been requesting for years became immediately available as soon as able-bodied people needed them will always amaze me.
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Why is it that able-bodied people are more uncomfortable with the term “disabled“ than actual disabled people are? ♿️
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PSA: Many wheelchair users can move their legs. Or even walk. And this does not make them any less disabled or less in need of their mobility aid.
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Disabled people speaking up or requesting access are often referred to as angry or bitter by able-bodied individuals, when no such negative emotions are conveyed.
It’s almost like these non-disabled people are projecting how THEY would feel when faced with the same issues…
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The “accessible entrance” of a public place should be the MAIN entrance.
Not the sketchy side door.
Not the back of the building behind the stinky dumpsters.
Disabled people are human beings, not inconvenient pieces of furniture.
Please stop trying to hide us.
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Inclusion is not “special treatment.”
Accessibility is not “special treatment.”
Treating others as fellow human beings is not “special treatment.”
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Visible disabilities: “Don’t assume I CAN’T do it based on what you see on the outside.”
Invisible disabilities: “Don’t assume I CAN do it based on what you see on the outside.”
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Disabled characters should be main characters too, not just sidekicks or extras.
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