Disability is the restricted perfomance or non-performance of certain activity as expected for "normal human beings", and it's a consequence of being impaired.

Handicap is the social consequence of impairment and disability: limitation or impediment of performing as expected socially and culturally like people without disabilities.

There are various problems with this approach: What should I do while my vision is a "deviation from normality"? How will I live? Should I lock myself home until a cure or other medical intervention is discovered? And what happens if this never happens while I am alive?

The Social Model of Disability emerged as a way of opposing medical ideas. Its premise: disability is a situation, not a condition. It is experienced in circumstances where accessibility -- a form of inclusion completely based on the independence of the disabled -- does not exist. Therefore, the origin of problems is not attributed to the individual that is a "deviation from normality", but to the way society was shaped."

^^ Important thread from @Anna here folks. Please take the time to hear her perspective on ableism.

Think of it, society: it would be way more productive to accommodate everyone's needs instead of forcibly trying to make them fit in that box of bigoted ideas you have of how a human being actually is. Because you know, the amount of people who actually are all of those things is really small, and you make a lot of people suffer acting like that.

You say that's exactly the point because some people are better than others and we should try to be like them? Guess we'll have to destroy you.

I could talk about that for hours but for now, I think I've managed to make my point. Good morning! 🌇

@Anna good morning 🐾💜

@Anna Always informative! Good morning! 👋

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@Anna Oh wow. I never looked at it that way. I didn't realize that the accepted notion of disability assumes that there is something wrong with the person who is disabled, rather than assuming that there is something lacking in societal/community support.