The Social Model can GET FUCKED.

"It drives me crazy when people say "the social model was created by Disabled People" like we're the Borg or something

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The chronically ill DO have "something wrong with us" and our status as sick shouldn't exclude us from the disabled community.

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We get ignored. We get treated like we don't exist. The concept of relative privilege within the disabled umbrella is a contentious one, and it's taboo to even suggest that a disabled person might experience some form of able-bodied privilege. But disability is not binary. The idea that you're either an "abled" (and therefore privileged) or "disabled" (therefore no privilege) is dangerous and reductive. You can be disabled and still have, for example, mobility privilege, neurotypical privilege, hearing privilege, communication privilege, intellectual privilege, non-chronic pain privilege, non-sick privilege.

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How do we as a community challenge ableist harmful stereotypes, without incidentally harming or marginalising those who the stereotypes actually do apply to?

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Because it all comes down to capitalism. No one ever discusses how disability intersects with late stage capitalism, but it seems at every stage that disabled people who can work are boosted, and disabled people who can't work are shoved down and made invisible. This is the great invisible divide between the disabled community.

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When they say "we don't need a cure" what they mean is "we don't need a cure for neurodivergence." Because 99% of the time when people online talk about disability, what they mean is their own personal disability and fuck anyone with a different disability. And 90% of the time, when people online talk about disability, they're actually talking exclusively about neurodiversity. Simply because neurodivergent people so massively dominate both the disabled social justice community, and specifically the disabled theatre community. The overwhelming majority of people in theatre who ID as disabled, do so because of neurodivergence. I've frequently been in rooms where every single person identified as having some form of ND, but I've literally never even met another person with my specific diagnosis."

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