snake321 wrote:
This isn't just aspies, mainstream society belittles anyone considered "disabled". They will deny this when asked, but it is painstakingly obvious. We're "forever children", held to stereotypical standards, "not fit" or "not smart enough" to be full equals..... This was the exact same thing blacks went through. They couldn't get decent educations because the white establishment thought they were "too dumb" for independence.
Yeah, my brother and sister went into wheelchairs at early ages. The family had to fight the school board for ramps, elevators, and other facilities so that they could get into the normal (actually advanced) classes, where they did quite well. We quit one church that thought a ramp would be too much of a change to their beautiful architecture.* This was before and somewhat after the ADA, which didn't get implemented on the day it was passed. And even today, I know of some places that have done zip to improve accessability.
* I'm cool with Christ. It's some of his followers that I simply can't abide.
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