Someone posted this interesting piece on Masto today, and I’ve been pondering it… and I’m still not sure what I make of it. Basically our author did himself an injury while on holiday in June, and he’s still recovering from that, but in the meantime he’s been pondering something from an accessibility course he’s been reading that he writes about here:
1 in 5 people currently have a disability. 100% of people will have some form of disability in their lifetime. Quote from Cindy Li, “We’re all just temporarily abled.”
There’s certainly some truth in that quote, in that shit will happen to all of us at some point that, frankly, gets in the way of us being able to live normally. But I have a bit of an issue with it, in that we may indeed all be temporarily abled but the converse isn’t true. We are not all temporarily disabled; some of us get abled again. No harm to Jim Nielsen, who does at least seem to be on the mend and has found the experience an educational one… good luck to him on getting back to his old ability. Speaking as someone who’s never going to do that, I just find something irritating about that quote…
