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I'm a RENT-obsessed, Star Trek loving college student living in an Empire State of Mind. And also? I'm crippled. My thoughts on life and other odds and ends.

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24th September 2011

'Overcoming' Is Not a Moral Obligation →

Society demands that we keep overcoming, overcoming, overcoming. But we don’t have to. Nowhere is it written that to be a really real human you have to brute force your way through your limits. Nowhere is it written that not doing so makes you less worthy. For most people, constantly refusing to acknowledge that you have limits is seen as a problem. We all have limits & we are supposed to acknowledge them, know where they are, work within them.

But when you have a disability, it’s like everyone expects you to push past your limits all the time. They want to be inspired, or they want to not have to deal with the fact that a disability means “there are things I cannot and will never be able to do”, even as they expect me to know there are things I can do that they will never be able to.

So we are pushed to keep ‘overcoming’, and if we can’t we are failures and lazy. But if we can, we aren’t really disabled. It’s a no win either way. Our choices are be burned out or be looked down on even more, be told we aren’t disabled because we can do xyz or because we can’t.

Brilliant.  That is all.

Tagged: disability

Source: djinnstorm

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