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Feeling so fed up of life with my physical disability today. It’s not even bad, I can work as much as everyone else but I have an issue that effects my gait and I am so so tired of a lifetime of people making assumptions and making rude/cruel comments.
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Anonymous 3w

I don’t show that it bothers me and stay cool while they ask me insensitive things like “do you also have a mental disability or is it just your leg?” Or mocking me behind my back.. It hurts that people judge and underestimate me over something I can’t do anything to change.. 😓

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Anonymous 3w

What disability do you have and why don’t you work if you can?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

I do work, I have worked since I was 16 and never said I didn’t. I have a mild form of spinal bifida and a spinal cord tether. Just want to be seen for who I am without people making snap assumptions just because I have a limp…

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

wow lol, it’s like you came to this thread specifically to provide an example of the way people make rude unfounded assumptions once they clock someone as disabled

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Yep, these exact kind of assumptions and attitudes are the reason I was severely depressed and attempted to “unalive” myself multiple times through High School. It’s funny because my disability causes me no pain, I can hike for miles, climb mountains, work on my feet for 12+ hours etc but the main disability it’s caused me has been a result of people’s attitudes and how they’ve treated me. :(

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

I wasn’t rude, there is a lot of people who have a very mild disability who are perfectly capable of working but choose to live off the system just because they have a condition so they can which I don’t agree with.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

nowhere did OP say they weren’t working, you simply jumped to that conclusion yourself. you saw someone talk about having a physical disability and being capable of holding a job and you immediately projected some kind of parasitic strawman on them, with no real justification for doing so. your attempt at explaining yourself isn’t even relevant to OP’s post… you thinking this whole reaction of yours has been a normal & neutral one is part of the ableism I’m talking about

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

that shit’s brutal, I’m sorry homie. I’ve been physically disabled since early childhood myself so I can empathize—even the people I considered friends would frequently make hurtful comments about my body & treat my limitations like they were all in my head. makes it incredibly difficult to let your guard down around anyone going forward, even as an adult, even when someone has already mostly earned your trust

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