Abstract painting that is mostly blue and green, with splashes of yellow, orange, and pink.

Disabled, but not like that: how we reinforce ableism in our own community.

A story about lateral ableism within the disability community.

powerd.media/article/disa...

"... at the end of the day, we’re all facing the same fight—and the only way we win is together..."

#Ableism #LateralAbleism

We did not spend 30+ minutes per post on TikTok subtitles in 2021, jumping in to help when others were low on spoons, typing and editing and yelling when the app crashed, just to give up now on a one sentence copy/paste alt text.

Conflicting access needs are a thing. But so is #LateralAbleism.

👆👆 other disabled / immunocompromised / chronically ill people can do this too & it’s called lateral ableism - everyone has privilege in various ways or levels

#ableism #LateralAbleism #internalizedableism

#NDGlossary: #LateralAbleism - When disabled people direct ableist attitudes and behaviors towards other disabled people, often within the same disability community. In example: Where some autistic people who can mask or who don't have intellectual disabilities look down on autistic people who do.