What is Ableism Anyway?

A quick & simple primer.

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Ableism is when people without disabilities see people with them as being ‘less than’… It is when a chasm exists because abled bodied people decide that the needs of disabled individuals are, in fact, not needs but demands that can be turned down… Ableism is cruel, and isolating, and ugly.

“An ableist society is said to be one that treats non-disabled individuals as the…