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Originally Posted by seesaw
Ableism is discrimination like racism but against the disabled. It's making statements or actions that favor the non disabled over the disabled. Ableism can come from disabled people as well as non disabled, you don't have to be non disabled to show ableism. I am also disabled and deal with ableism all the time. We discuss it at length in my disabled support groups. I'll see if I can find some straight forward examples for you.
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Oh okay, thank you for the clarification! Yeah that makes sense and I see it all the time. Not just towards me, but others as well. And yeah, I've seen it between disabled people as well. In a similar way, usually between two people with the same kind of disability, one of them may tell the other to stop using the disability as an excuse if one is able to live better with the disability than the other. Or at least they think they can.