THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM : What the Fidget Spinners Fad Reveals About Disability Discrimination
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Penser les #handicaps via le prisme du #pouvoir
Something that was considered entirely pathological and in dire need of correction when done by disabled people is now perfectly acceptable because it is being done by non-disabled people.
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Because insisting that disabled people act more like non-disabled people is not about improving functionality, it’s about who has the power to set social standards. It’s the same reason certain accents and dialects are considered less “educated” and the people who speak that way snubbed. It’s the same reason people with one skin tone are portrayed as less capable, or more dangerous, than people with the majority’s skin tone. It’s why “women’s work” is devalued and underpaid. In short, it’s oppression, plain and simple.
