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Here in Salt Lake, we had a story like this on the news the other day, and I cringed the ertnie time. I really really fucking hate this inspirational bullshit.I also find it interesting how much these inspirational pieces say about the kinds of disabilities (dis)ableist society finds acceptable and unacceptable. For example: I have never seen such a story where the inspirational person had bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, generalized anxiety disorder or borderline personality disorder that they overcame to win a gold medal, drive a race car, travel the world or complete college. I suspect this is because (dis)ableism casts people with mental illnesses as violent and dangerous, incurable or just big, lazy fakers. Or, perhaps, that we're just not seen as having any real barriers to just doing whatever we want because our disabilities don't involve wheelchairs, canes or service animals and are not generally visible (after all, when I'm too depressed to brush my teeth or take a shower that's just me being lazy and childish, that's not me having a physical fucking symptom!) On the other hand, I'm kind of glad
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Amanda
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
16 december 2014, 09:52:47
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