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To add to this, a perspective I've heard working in the disability sphere is 'everybody is disabled eventually' - be that through injury, illness, or even just
by scooble 6y ago
To add to this, a perspective I've heard working in the disability sphere is 'everybody is disabled eventually' - be that through injury, illness, or even just old age.
This really challenges the view that thinking about disabled users is catering to the needs of a small group of the population. Whereas in fact it is bringing benefits to the majority of the population (at some point in their lives).
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoThe culture of distraction distracts everyone from realizing they'll die. Disability is just the fine print. I remember walking around in a city after a parent died, and the world seemed like an illusion.
- ogre_codes 6y agoIt's weird, sometimes I do something and I realize that if things had been slightly different it might have killed me. Then I wonder if in a parallel universe I'm already dead. Then I realize that if there are parallel universes there are probable countless times where I'm already dead.
- blackbrokkoli 6y agoDoes not even have to be that grim/profound. Ever used your phone in the blazing sun, or rain? Had a partly shattered screen or tried to do something on the stone-age library computer? Searched for something with really slow or shaky connection? Tried to explain where to click via phone? Suddenly all those accessibility features and "fail gracefully" come in really handy.
- myfonj 6y agoIt's often put as "temporarily abled" or "able-bodied". "We're all just temporarily abled." is quite famous quote, as far as I traced attributed to Cindy Li.