A Paralympic commentator just said the following: "You stop seeing the wheelchair pretty quickly when you watch this sport." Do. Not. Say. This. It's ableist AF.

The presumed inferiority, unworthiness, inability and incompetency of disabled people by others is what really holds disabled people back. Ableism is real. Ableism is harmful. Ableism devalues and dehumanizes disabled people.

Medical staff who walks right into me, a wheelchair user: “Be careful. I didn’t see you.” Wheelchair users are careful. It is often others, including medical staff, who don’t see us, literally and figuratively. Too often, disabled people are rendered invisible.

Humanity is not diminished by disability.

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Disability, by itself, is not a source of inspiration or pity. The lives of disabled people engaging in everyday, ordinary activities, are not inspirational or pitiful.

Disabled people are forced to exist in a society where others determine our access to every aspect of life. This cycle must end.

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Me, a wheelchair user: “Do you have an adjustable exam table.” Medical staff: “You have to let us know in advance if you have special needs. We’d have referred you to someone else.” Access is not a “special need.” Doctors and hospitals need to own up to their responsibilities.

Ableism devalues disabled people with a false and harmful cloak of inferiority.

Too often, inaccessibility for disabled people has been viewed as something that disabled people have to overturn rather than a wrong committed by society, government and the private sector that must be fixed by those who exclude.