mizmoose

Disability Inspiration Porn - the idea that we should be SO INSPIRED by some disabled person doing something able people do with no second thought given.

How do we stop this train-wreck? I ask people to think, "Would you think this is "inspiring" if an able person did it?" but people don't want to think, they just want to feel. Do you have any thoughts?

Back in the '80s I worked a gig where a comedian's rider specified the minimum amount of lighting with usual instruments/wattage, "or the headlights, on high beam, of a Volkwagen Beetle."

Someone had a Beetle and they volunteered it. It would have happened but we would have had to remove one doorframe and the venue wouldn't let us.

Given that you are working with the disabled, I would like you to please consider removing the term "wheelchair bound" from your vocabulary. Wheelchairs give the physically disabled a chance for freedom; to not be bound to one place.

Better terms include, "uses/using a wheelchair" or "wheelchair user".