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ironphoenix ([personal profile] ironphoenix) wrote2012-02-29 05:41 pm

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[livejournal.com profile] dungeonwriter on passing.

Written from the point of view of an invisibly disabled person, but applicable to passing in many contexts, this captures some of the complex ambivalence of passing.

[identity profile] waterspyder.livejournal.com 2012-03-01 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
I've finally started to get to a place where I'm comfortable showing the effects of my disability to some, where I used to hide it from everyone, including Josh. It makes it even harder.

The one place where I'm consistently confronted with my own limitations is OC Transpo. If I haven't disclosed my situation to someone, I try to avoid taking the bus with them. The looks and comments of strangers are a little easier to take. I don't look disabled, why do I need a seat? I don't look disabled, why can't you just take the stairs?

[identity profile] ironphoenix.livejournal.com 2012-03-01 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods* Invisible disabilities are just laziness or lack of self-discipline, eh?

[identity profile] waterspyder.livejournal.com 2012-03-01 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely. Sometimes, I'm told, it's just because I'm fat, and that doesn't count.

I really want people to think hard about the chain reaction that happens to someone when they get a spinal or leg injury if they don't have a wickedly high metabolism.

[identity profile] ironphoenix.livejournal.com 2012-03-02 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, playing the fat card. Visible, and still a legitimate target for ridicule and discrimination of all kinds, because it's obviously your fault.