“It would be better if you were paralyzed. From the waist down I mean”

“It would be better if you were paralyzed. From the waist down I mean”

This is the kind of stupid shit I get from people sometimes.

People who are unable to love and accept me for who I am. 

Ignorant people who think you can categorize, hierarchize even, disabilities. Kind of like when you’re asked “would you rather be deaf or blind?” Ridiculous. 

I feel like there’s always been a bit of a divide, an invisible wall if you will, between those of us BORN with a disability and those of us who ACQUIRED a disability at some point after exiting the womb. 

There’s also an invisible wall between motorized wheelchair users and manual wheelchair users. One is better that the other apparently (more on that in a later post tho). 

So now, not only am I being judged and ranked according to my disabilities compared to able-bodied people, but I’m also being judged and ranked in my abilities compared to OTHER disabled people. How about you “F*ck off” and you start judging me based on character?

So, would you consider me to be more desirable, more worthy of your love, less “disabled”, if I were paralyzed?

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