So I really didn’t expect my series on disability and consent to take off and I am sad about the very small number of views it is getting but I now see the heart of where it’s coming from and it seems to be something very unexpected. It’s how society sees people with disabilities and sets the bar so low for us it’s kind of scary at times how low it’s set, and we see that this really does need to change.
For some people with proud disabilities I can see where this can be an issue but for others who are capable of doing more we do need to have that challenge about things and to see what is happening and to be challenged to be our best.
I am starting to walk again to combat an internet addiction and I see that I can’t not take my phone but I spend the time on it in a bench. This I know objectively isn’t healthy behaviours and I do see that this isn’t healthy but I see that we do need to be able to talk about disability and consent a lot more than we are at the moment and we see that this is a massive issue that we need to work out. That there is a lot of lonely people in the world that are using the internet as a crutch to stimulate the real world and the outside world.
I see that for some cases accessing the outside world can be difficult but for others it can happen quite easily as well, and we need to be able to change the way that we see disability as not a negative thing but as a way of being. What is everyone else’s thought’s on this and how to we start to engage the conversation around disability and what disability means to everyone.