On that same note, I think a lot of people need to really accept the fact that they can become disabled at literally any moment. Not all disabilities are slow and progressive illnesses or massive tragic accidents or simple aging, you can become disabled by tripping in your house or hitting your head against something while doing housework or even just by existing and experiencing a sudden brain aneurysm or blood clot or something else that can change your life in literal seconds. Bodies are both very durable and extremely delicate in ways that we don’t entirely understand and they change in moments.
You’ve gotta take this in, really hold it in your mind and understand it. If you are able-bodied, that is most likely a temporary state. Statistically speaking, you will be physically disabled one day. That’s life, friends.
the two things I wish people would learn more than anything are: 1) an activist community is not a friendship group and 2) nobody is exempt from doing harm. you will believe things that are wrong. you will say things that hurt people. the people you like and respect will do the same. people you agree with and have many of the same political goals as you will be absolute cunts. people who believe awful things will be super nice about it. it is unhelpful to act as though the world can be broken into “people I like, and are nice, and therefore never do harm” and “people I don’t like, and are mean, and do harm”. you have to be able to learn from mistakes you have to learn how to work with cunts and you have to learn that not all of your ideological enemies are cartoon villains
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