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[–]Midcentury[S] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They treat their self-diagnosed disabilities like super-powers. Its really quite silly and aggravating. Hearing your story brings home how selfish it is as well. I have had my travails and I agree, its hell. Also, call me old fashioned but I want people to judge me the same as everyone else.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Even though people with disabilities have been treated poorly in the past, I think these days there's been an overreaction to past behaviours, and disabilities are almost being promoted as special abilities/disabled people being better than normal people because of their different experiences.

Equality for people with disabilities is simply to make the world accessible to us despite our disabilities, not to put us on a pedestal and treat us as other/better. We're all still humans beings, nothing more, nothing less.

[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same with the trans thing and even the race thing, unfortunately. Evidently, we went too far in promoting being kind to people that we went to the other end of the horseshoe. We will see a very conservative wave soon in reaction to all this woke stuff. As a Liberal person at heart, I hate to see it.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not looking forward to it either. It's going to be a case of 'we were wrong about trans people, what other woke things were we wrong about?'.