CELINE LEAN YEW LIN

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[CELINE LEAN YEW LIN @Celine_YL_Lean]

#DisabledLoveIsBeautiful
Don‘t you ever suggest otherwise.
Disability is not a burden. Nor is it a measure of unworthiness.
In fact, disability adds to the relationship. It can be the foundation upon which trust is built and true love is strengthened.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Calling the needs of disabled people “special needs,” turns them into a burden and makes it easier to deny them.
Disabled people have human needs.
Not special needs.
Not burdens.
Human needs.

[Dr. Raechel N. Soicher @rnsoicher]

If you're at a college that started became in-person for Fall, you're students are excited, motivated, and tired AF. They are overwhelmed. They are nervous. They have concerns over time management, getting in the flow of things, getting COVID.

Be fucking nice.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

The question is not how much access should disabled people get?

The question is why shouldn’t disabled people have access to everything?

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

My disability isn’t shameful.
Your disability isn’t shameful.
No one’s disability is shameful.

The “shame” of disability is imposed by ableism.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Nondisabled person:”Is it ok if I park here? I have to pick up my lunch.”
Me, a wheelchair user:”You’re blocking the bus stop.”
Nondisabled person:”I promise. I’ll be back before the bus comes.” (He parks and runs off).

Bus comes and I miss it.
Nondisabled people are exhausting.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Why are 25% of the population(disabled people) always an afterthought?

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Stranger in front of church:”Do you have faith? Have you repented for your sins? That is the first step to getting out of that wheelchair.”

Disabled people aren’t sinful.
Disabled people aren’t faithless.
Disability isn’t a punishment.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Disabled people don’t need constant reminders from nondisabled people that we are able and capable.

Nondisabled people need those reminders.

The presumed inability and incapability of disabled people is the essence of ableism.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Stranger:”I’m so sorry for you.”
Me:”Why?”
Stranger:”I’m sorry you’re in a wheelchair. I’m sorry for your misery. I’ll pray it ends.”

Disability is not misery.
Wheelchair use is not misery.
Unsolicited prayers to end the perceived misery of disability are ableist and unwelcome.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

“Wheelchair-bound” and “confined to a wheelchair”
may be commonly-used terms, but that does not make them acceptable or less offensive.

[Keah Buy The Secret Summer Promise Brown @Keah_Maria]

Today is disability day of mourning. I’m mourning the disabled people who didn’t survive this pandemic. I’m mourning the fact that we live in a society that often treats disabled people like afterthoughts. I’m mourning living in a world willing to accommodate everyone but us.

[Dr Amit Patel @BlindDad_Uk]

You’d never ask if you would be happy to have physical relations with someone of a different race or nationality so why is it appropriate to ask that of disabled people?

@JustinTomlinson, you are the Minister for Disabled People - this is not acceptable.

[Dr Amit Patel @BlindDad_Uk]

This is downright degrading for disabled people.

Rather than supporting an inclusive society @cabinetofficeuk is actively accentuating the them Vs us narrative of disabled Vs non-disabled.

Questions like these just make it harder for disabled people to be counted at equals.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Will there ever be a time when disabled people do not have to remind others that that we are not disposable, dispensable and
expendable?

Ableism is exhausting.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

As soon as people talk about “special needs,” they devalue disabled people.

With devaluation, disabled people become a “burden.”

No human being is a burden.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

If a disabled person is with a nondisabled person, stop asking the nondisabled person what the disabled person wants.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

I don’t want to overcome my disability.
I want to overcome ableism.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Ability does not mean nondisabled.

Ability and disability coexist.

Disabled people have enormous ability.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Disabled people don’t have “special needs.”
Those are code words for burden.

Disabled people face special barriers:
Exclusion, inaccessibility, lack of accommodation, inequity, and ableism.