Hey, this is a reminder that if you make your own disabilities into an aesthetic thing, or romanticize or even sexualize them, that doesn't make you ableist or evil.
We do what we have to do, to get through the hard parts. It's okay to find your sick self sexy, or see your pain through rose colored glasses, or make your struggling into a freaking moodboard. It really doesn't matter. You're not being appropriative or ableist.
Like yeah obviously, you should still handle with care, but handling with care doesn't mean sanitizing your entire way of interacting with your disabilities to only the toothless, sandpapered smooth stuff.
I've seen too many abled people, and people without the specific disability or symptoms being depicted, complaining that stuff like this is somehow offensive to the people with the disability or symptoms, often when I'm in that group myself, and just been like, "NO, it's NOT".
Even when a disability is entirely struggling or pain, the people with it are allowed to make enjoyment out of it. We're allowed to have fun with it.
This goes for everything from decorating mobility aids to, like mentioned, straight up moodboards.
You're allowed to interact with your disability in the ways that help YOU. You are harming NO ONE by doing these things. If abled people take away the wrong conclusion from it, that's THEIR fault, and blaming disabled people for it is ABLEISM. We do not have to spend every second of our lives being perfect model educators - we can just exist as disabled people.
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