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"I've spent a week cosplaying as a disabled user. And I hate it"
by jokowueu 7y ago
"I've spent a week cosplaying as a disabled user. And I hate it"
- gumby 7y agoWhile accurate I believe your comment trivializes the issue. It is hard to empathise with many disabilities until you have "walked a mile in their shoes". You don't even notice the failure modes. The idea that people should try, and the emergence of products like the arthritis simulating gloves, and good steps. When the ADA passed there was (and of course remains) criticism that it only helps a disproportionally few people and if businesses didn't want their custom that was the business' problem. But we all take advantage of many ADA affordances either through transient disability (e.g. breaking a limb) or just life (carrying a large number of packages). Please don't scorn the author. I personally would not have gone as far. And I learnt something by reading the article.
- nemetroid 7y agoThe parent comment quotes the first line of the article.
- gumby 7y agoIndeed, and I said it is accurate, but while the introduction of the article is ironic: why would someone say something that shocking about their behavior? Read on and you'll see he felt it only scratched at the surface. And "I hate it"...we learn that "it" wasn't the experience itself, which was frustrating, but the vistas of difficulty for his fellow people it opened his eyes too. While to pull only that line out comes off as mocking.
- pdpi 7y ago"I hate having this disability" is entirely different from "I hate how little other people care about my disability, even when they say they do". There was not one single word in the article to the effect of the former, it was entirely focused on the latter.
- archy_ 7y agoI really dislike this. It feels trivializing and insensitive, like being disabled is something you so for fun and that it's not a real thing.