«How about you send the kids and you can do your own thing»: Grandparents exclude wheelchair-using son-in-law from their Christmas vacation

It’s abundantly clear that we don’t live in a particularly accessible world. According to the American’s With Disabilities Act, an «accessible» place is «a site, facility, work environment, service, or program that is easy to approach, enter, operate, participate in, and/or use safely and with dignity by a person with a disability.» Despite the ADA …
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Teenager Screams at Her Disabled Cousin For Cutting Up All of Her Dresses With Scissors

When you’re a teenager, it can be super difficult to regulate your emotions, especially when a genuine injustice against you occurs. You can get so angry that you can’t help but snap at the people around you, even if they are not wholly to blame. You can do the opposite, where you sit back and …
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Entitled Karen Demands Teenager With a Prosthetic Leg Give Up Her Train Seat For Her

You can’t assume anything about someone just by looking at them. They might look young, healthy, and happy, but looks can often be deceiving. You would think that people would internalize the message of «don’t judge a book by its cover» and carry it into adulthood, but that’s just not the case.  I can’t tell …
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Twitter Expresses Bafflement Over Controversy About Influencer Mom Wishing for a Healthy Baby

One of the truest tweets to have ever been tweeted deals with breakfast foods. It talks about how many people on social media always try to find the most bad faith take of what you’re saying.  You can say » I like pancakes» and somebody will say «So you hate waffles?» No b*tch. Dats a …
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Cruel Stepfather Refuses To Celebrate His 17-Year-Old Nonverbal Stepson’s First Words

It’s normal not to feel the same emotions as your partner while reacting to the same situation. Being in a relationship doesn’t automatically make you the same person. However, it’s important to recognize and notice when something is important to your partner and react appropriately. If your wife says Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory …
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‘You can just leave your wheelchair there’: Wheelchair User Schools Theme Park Employee on Casual Ableism With Malicious Compliance

It’s easy to take for granted just how much of the world is geared around those of us who have full use of our legs. There are accessibility issues all over the place, and sadly there are many out there who keep on creating more all of the time.  It makes being a wheelchair user …
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Dog-Hater Forces Woman Away From Her Service Dog, Doesn’t Care When Owner Gets a Seizure

Regular dogs do not belong everywhere. I was riding an incredibly crowded subway this weekend, and a pug was sitting in one of the seats. While the dog’s presence amused some subway riders, I was slightly annoyed. Why the owner couldn’t put the pug on her lap so somebody else could sit down, I don’t …
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Elon Musk Accuses Former Twitter Employee of Faking Disability

Elon Musk doesn’t have an excellent reputation for treating employees well. He’s been laying off entire teams at Twitter for months, and the website is suffering for it. Just yesterday, most of the images on the app weren’t loading! Even Elon Musk’s most loyal devotees are not being treated well. Do you remember the employee …
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Wicked Stepfather Refuses To Celebrate His 17-Year-Old Nonverbal Stepson’s First Words

It’s normal not to feel the same emotions as your partner while reacting to the same situation. Being in a relationship doesn’t automatically make you the same person. However, it’s important to recognize and notice when something is important to your partner and react appropriately. If your wife says Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory …
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Dude With Dwarfism Gets Petty Revenge on Patronizing Stranger, Starts Thread on How to Speak to Kids About Difference

Human beings come in all shapes and sizes. Unfortunately, not everybody is as willing to accept that as others. It’s a sad fact that those who have some kind of visible physical difference are pretty much guaranteed to face discrimination because of it, and some of the worst offenders can be parents of curious kids. …
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