Your Value is Not Your Productivity.
We don't need to see people for their abilities rather than their disabilities.
We need to see people as people.
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You are not valuable because of what you can do despite your disability.
You are valuable because you are a human being.
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You are valuable because you have
-Thoughts
-Emotions
-Desires
-Morals
-Choices
&
-Values
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Lets judge people for the choosing to be kind, thoughtful, open, generous and fair to themselves and to others.
Not for their ability to execute those choices.
Ability outside their control.
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Your value is not your productivity.
Your value is not your ability.
Your value is not your health.
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Resting does not lower your value.
Disability does not lower your value.
Illness does not lower your value.
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Your value is not determined by what you can do.
Its determined by what you choose to do with with it.
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The true value of a life is only known to the person living it.
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Ableism is insidious. internalized ableism even more so. Therefore, even though I have said this a million times and will say it a million more I wanted to give it its own space.
People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or #MECFS are directly impaired in what we can do. Productivity is directly tied to energy. An Energy Limiting Illness hits at our productivity in a uniquely direct way.
Capitalism run on the myth that everyone has an equal shot if they just work hard enough.
Disabled lives prove this false. The playing field was never equal.
Being disabled does not make you morally inferior.
We do not need more production in our GDP obsessed society. We need more people who live their morals and values. Who prioritize community, equity, and quality time over endless growth.
Being a good person isn't about what you can do, its about your choices and values. Its about what you would do. Its about what you choose to do with what you have, no matter how small.
