yarrayora: dracox-serdriel:crystallos-sol:justlgbtthings: justlgbtthings:inspiration porn is ableist
yarrayora: dracox-serdriel:crystallos-sol:justlgbtthings: justlgbtthings:inspiration porn is ableist. knowing your limits and not purposely putting yourself in harmful situations is not “giving up.” disabled people living their lives is not “giving up” and they are allowed to be disabled in peace. we don’t need to be an inspiration to abled people. we are not here to serve and be witnessed by abled people. pictures and mentality like this enforce the idea that our lives are to be a public spectacle and that without the abled perspective, are otherwise meaningless and unfulfilled unto ourselves. this glorifies self-harm and -endangerment, and is incredibly harmful and toxic to disabled people. protect disabled youth and stop spreading messages that we’re not good enough knowing our limitations and not spreading ourselves thin. no I’ve tried to find anything that actually contains information about the child in the photograph or otherwise gives context for the photo, but most of the sources I’ve found don’t seem terribly reliable. Nevertheless, here they are:When you completely refuse to give upA tweetAnnnd a Reddit thread [Libreddit]Assuming that any of these sources is providing accurate information, then the child in the photograph has a lung disorder that requires him to wear a portable oxygen tank to live. He can only take it off for about thirty minutes a day. So, no matter what this kid is doing, he’s wearing the tubes/mask/oxygen tank. Other information about this photo: It was taken at a competition where he’s about to do competative kata. He does Shotokon Karate. Oh, also, he’s from Brazil.This is a kid. He wants to do karate. He has a lung disorder, so, like everything else he does in life, he has to do it with the tubes/oxygen tank. As far as I can tell, there is literally not one thing about his story that implies he’s “fighting” or “not giving up” - he’s just a kid with a disability who wants to do karate.It’s not right to assume that he’s “not giving up” just because his disability is visible.That being said, it’s equally not right to assume he’s putting himself in a dangerous situation (or pushing his limits) just because his disability is visible.There’s no logical reason to presume from this one photograph that this child is unable to safely do martial arts. He needs an oxygen tank. So what? Plenty of martial artists have prostheses, medical implants, short-acting inhalers, and any number of other accomodations they need to function normally in life. They decide to do karate, and suddenly they don’t “know their limitations”? How is that not just as ableist as assuming this kid is “fighting” or “not giving up”?As far as I can tell, this is just a kid who wants to do karate. He attended a competition. He got his photo taken. That’s it. He’s neither an inspirational blurb nor a cautionary tale. I’m disabled, and I do martial arts. In fact, training is a cornerstone of my treatment regimen - it helps me with symptoms that are resistant to traditional treatment options. But that’s not why I started doing it… I started doing it because I wanted to try it, and I continued because I like doing it. (Luckily, my disability isn’t visible, so nobody appropriates my photos for inspiration porn.)Also, reading through the comments, it’s pretty clear that people don’t know much about martial arts, particularly karate. In karate, kata is done alone (or in some competitions, done as a group in sync with one another). Martial arts isn’t limited to sparring/fighting one another. #inspiration porn is a problem but so is assuming that disabled people doing anything is automatically internalized ableism -- source link
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