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There's a lot of LGBT people with the same demand - "Let us be this gender". What demand are chronic illness people making?
Let us use the abilities we have without demanding that we do what we can't. Let us have as much access to society as if possible. Don't shut us out and ignore our existence.
Accommodate and recognize their existence?
But who’s? And with what accommodations?
I'm very curious what the impetus for these questions was. It sounds rather hostile to people with disabilities.
The person I replied to answered a tactical question, which was rephrased “ok, it’s not enough, what do we need to do and why, and for who?” Ie “I am a man who lives with and loves a man who can’t get health insurance because the state doesn’t recognize our relationship.”
With something that basically said “see us, acknowledge our needs” without specifying who “us” are and what those needs are.
You can’t galvanize people to action when you can describe the problem or a solution, or how many people are impacted.
This whole thread is vagueposting about issues with no actual asks that anyone can help with.
You replied to one of my other comments that was the impetus for this. People saying nothing is being done - when clearly a lot is being done - without describing who it isn’t being done for, and what’s not being done.
I’m not suggesting we shouldn’t do more, I’m sure we should. But I do think we have to say more and be real about what is and isn’t working and what we need to do.
I was guessing and hoped someone with more experience would chime in.