Some people will never get it. There was a magazine called Mouth, The Magazine of Disability Rights that sadly isn't publishing anymore. (The editor-in-chief was ailing last I heard, and apparently they were preparing for the inevitable.)
I've been disabled all my adult life—with an invisible disability, which many people will assert isn't "real," but it's prevented me from getting hired plenty of times. Every so often, someone will say, "What's wrong with you, anyway?" "Are you drunk?" "Are you retarded?" So, yeah, I hear you; you can't say it loud enough, in my opinion.
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Date: 2012-10-22 05:15 am (UTC)I've been disabled all my adult life—with an invisible disability, which many people will assert isn't "real," but it's prevented me from getting hired plenty of times. Every so often, someone will say, "What's wrong with you, anyway?" "Are you drunk?" "Are you retarded?" So, yeah, I hear you; you can't say it loud enough, in my opinion.