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Pretty sure it was always like this
by p1esk 11mo ago
Pretty sure it was always like this
- SoftTalker 11mo agoNo, "disability" used to be something of a stigma. Now it's celebrated, and people proudly identify with it. If you're saying that people always try to game the system, whatever it is, then I agree however.
- hattmall 11mo ago>If you're saying that people always try to game the system, whatever it is, then I agree however. This isn't even true either. In the past there was a huge emphasis and effort made toward character. Going out of your way to do the right thing and be helpful and NOT getting special treatment but choosing the difficult path. Now everything is the opposite it's about getting as much special treatment as possible and shirking as much responsibility and this isn't just people it's throughout the corporate and political system as well.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoYeah, good times create weak men, and all that. I agree.
- apical_dendrite 11mo agoI can tell you from personal experience as a person with a physical disability that it's still very much a stigma. It's also very much possible for something to be both a stigma and an identity. In fact, the stigmatization can make the identity stronger.
- Detrytus 11mo agoWell, some kinds of disability still are a stigma, but here on HN neurodiversity/autism is celebrated as some kind of superpower, basically.
- apical_dendrite 11mo agoI'm aware. See for instance, VC Arielle Zuckerberg's comment that when deciding which founders to fund she looks for "a little of the rizz and a little of the tis" with "rizz" referring to charisma and "tis" to autism. One could argue that mythologizing a particular characteristic is itself a form of stigma.
- jay_kyburz 11mo agoI'm all tis and no rizz
- jfindper 11mo agosome disabilities have mostly lost their stigma, sure, in some places. Many have not. Most have not, if you consider the whole world and not just California and Washington or whatever.
- emptyfile 11mo ago[dead]