That's a really great post on disability. I think there's a tendency to ignore both how common disabilities are in history and also how being rich/important is in some ways a disability accommodation (being able to hire servants, etc) and in many ways also not. I deal personally with a lot of chronic pain and it's amazing even in my own life how some things are disability because of the structures of society (even far down into all the times I struggle with being a leftie in a world designed for righties!) and some things would be disabilities even if those structures were replaced by more accessible ones. My absolute biggest disability is terrible eyesight... but I have access to opthamologists and can afford glasses, so my biggest disability really just means I can't see in the rain when my glasses fog. That's it. The entire history of humans losing eye sight as they age, and I'm like "ugh so this great eyeglasses place doesn't take my insurance, but it's still affordable, just a complaining-about price, rather than fully covered".
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