https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/counter-inspirational/ Changing the Cultural Conversation Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/counter-inspirational/#comment-450 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:46:47 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/when-inspiration-porn-is-counter-inspirational/#comment-450 This merely confirms the twinned notions that underpin the bulk of Normalistic ‘Magical Thinking’:
1) Everyone starts out from precisely the same place in life, that of a blank slate. (Conveniently ignoring the obvious, but hey, magical thinking is defined by doing so…)
2) Life is altogether just, in that good things happen to ‘Good’ people, and if bad things happen to you, it’s because you’re morally deficient.
The two thought-trains above, when convolved, are the foundations of statements like ‘the only disability in life is a bad attitude’. The reality, however, is darker: ‘all failure is ultimately moral failure’ and ‘full and complete control – of all facets of life – from conception to decomposition’.
Hence, if you faill, you can only blame YOUR lack of effort.
Can we have a cheer for ‘Blaming the (REAL) victim’? We do not NEED
to help him or here, do we? Not if we CURSE him enough – make him
feel guilty, manipulate him into ‘laboring unto destruction’ and thereby ERASING himself from our consciousness, so he’s either utterly invisible or in grave WHERE HE BELONGS? (The whole concept behind the ‘ugly laws’ of the past – out of sight, and therefore out of mind…)

]]> https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/counter-inspirational/#comment-449 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:46:39 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/when-inspiration-porn-is-counter-inspirational/#comment-449 That really is a bizarre juxtaposition.
And let’s not forget that the only disability to consider is a visible one. The rest really ARE just a matter of attitude, don’tcha know?

]]> https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/counter-inspirational/#comment-448 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:46:30 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/when-inspiration-porn-is-counter-inspirational/#comment-448 Excellent observations I may have to use this to show as an example to others who don’t get the “disability is not for your inspiration” message. Well done

]]> https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/counter-inspirational/#comment-447 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:46:22 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/when-inspiration-porn-is-counter-inspirational/#comment-447 The other thing I’ve noticed- nine times out of ten, the people in such photos are white.

]]> https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/counter-inspirational/#comment-446 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:46:13 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/when-inspiration-porn-is-counter-inspirational/#comment-446 Awesome post, Rachel. You’e hit the nail right on the head. 🙂

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