KingdomOfRats wrote:
if disabled by disability,why would anyone like it if it really is disability to them? maybe they could like what they say are good sides of their condition and what it gives to them and not actually be disabled by it.
am have multiple disabilities mostly at severe or profound level [autism,epilepsy,hyperacusis,multiple learning disabilities,up to day long paralysis from waist down due to sensory shutdowns and seizures,mild CP type in left leg] and dont like having them as they affect life in even the smallest of ways,though dont sit there thinking about hating them,most of them will never go away so it waste of hate.
Yes there are some things that can't really be embraced as "just different."
I just get the bodily discomfort thing, nothing really wrong but I do NOT celebrate it. It would be nice to be comfortable.
I've no big problem with the "mental" Aspie traits - years before I even suspected AS I was lucky enough to find people who accepted me for what I was and loved me anyway. So I know mainstream prejudice against anything different is down to the other person, and I've learned to be defiant against that. I only have a vague sense of what others can do that I can't.