#disability culture
Disability Culture
Last week while doing a thing on campus I learned that the honour society for disabled students was on a list of multicultural clubs. I asked how we were multicultural.
The answer: Disablity Culture.
I went over to a friend of mine, also disabled, and told her that as disabled people we have a culture and are considered multicultural.
Her response: Awesome!
Naturally, I came home and googled…
Anonymous asked: Wait, I signed up for a trans kid when I decided to become pregnant? Are you joking or are you really that crazy?
Hey there,
I’m not joking at all and I don’t really see how this would be a laughing matter to you.
Yes, you signed up for a trans kid. And while we are at it, you also signed up for a disabled kid. Autistic kid. Gay kid. A kid who doesn’’t look like you. A deaf kid. A kid who will have interests that don’t match up with yours at all. You signed up for a shy kid and a loud kid and a kid who wets the bed and a sick kid.
That’s the beauty, the miracle of parenthood, don’t you agree? You decide to care for a little person you don’t even know yet. You decide to open your heart and home to them, you promise to nurture and love and protect a tiny human being. How can you promise that, if not unconditionally?
You can’t pick and choose your kid. Maybe even more importantly, they can’t choose you. They depend on you to keep that promise - and not only if they live up to whatever expectations you had.
With all my love,
Tumblr Dad
shoutout to people who struggle with hygiene due to disability. i mean every aspect of hygiene- people who struggle to shower for weeks or months on end, people who don’t, won’t or can’t brush their teeth for whatever reasons, people who struggle with using the toilet, incontinent people, and everyone else who has ever been made to feel bad for being “gross”, for having any kind of odor, looking “bad” or unkempt- you are disabled and these are symptoms of your disabilities. fuck every single person who makes you feel like these are personal failings. you have more pressing things to worry about. fuck people who make your body their business.
