ability

theconcealedweapon:

shitpeoplesay2servicedoghandlers:

abled people: can you do the thing??

disabled people: … technically yes BUT it would hurt like hell/ruin my day/trigger a flare/exhaust me/be a fall risk/make me more sick AND THEN I would have to spend a day in bed/increase my dosage/cancel all my other plans/spend a week recovering afterwards

abled people: … but you CAN do it

Imagine if abled people were treated the same way.

A lot of people technically can climb a rope to go to another floor. But it would be physically exhausting, it would require multiple trips if carrying anything, and there’d be a risk of injury.

A lot of people technically can grab a pan from the oven barehanded. But they’d get severe burns.

Some people can solve math problems in their head. But it’s time consuming, and there’s a risk of error.

No one tells them to just suck it up and do it. We have stairs. We have oven mitts. We have calculators.