I cannot emphasize this enough:
The knee-jerk assumption that disabled people are faking is not a result of how many fakers there are out there.
The belief that there are so many fakers out there is a result of the knee-jerk assumption that disabled people are faking.
The knee-jerk assumption that disabled people are faking is not a result of how many fakers there are out there.
The belief that there are so many fakers out there is a result of the knee-jerk assumption that disabled people are faking.
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A few months ago, someone posted on IG, "People don't fake sick. They fake well. Read that again." And that hit, because I'm constantly pushing myself to get things done, hiding my exhaustion & pain. Then people will say I'm not really disabled.
I stopped bringing it with me if I didn't already need it when I left the house, even though most of the times I needed it was after being out and about for a while.
I constantly run into this, even amongst "non-ablist" folks.
"How are you autistic? You went to college! Got good grades! You can't be autistic!"
Also that mentalitiy 'inspired' my uncle to tell a therapist not to tell me I'm autistic because "I would use it as a crutch to not improve"
It sucked, really hard