Wow I'm really gonna need sighted people who, when they find out I'm visually impaired, to stop saying variations on "I am too if I take off my glasses!"
It's like British people saying "we are all immigrants" and I'm like yeah but some of you are thinking of like viking ancestors or some shit and some people have to live in fear of the Home Office today.
I'm blind even WITH my glasses. It's a very different thing than your correctable sight loss Steve.
I'm boosting this because I've just seen a conversation here where people are vigorously agreeing with each other that wearing glasses means you're disabled.
It means you have an impairment. It matters that it requires resources in money and healthcare to correct it. But it also matters that it can be corrected. That's not the same as a disability.
@bright_helpings oh boy. Clearly that’s an argument abled people are having.
@DrSuzanne Yeah. And with good intentions: they're trying to address the stigma around disability. But this isn't how to do it.
@bright_helpings @DrSuzanne so much of the stigma around disability is already “why havent you just gone to the right doctor to Fix This” that saying glasses are the same thing feels like it’d only make the situation worse tbh
