Thread by @crippledscholar

In honour of those brave souls who try and silence disabled people's attempts to not lose access to things that improve there quality of life by asking inane questions like "what did disabled people do before plastic straws anyway"

clearly assuming the answer in "they were totally fine"

Spoiler Alert: WE WEREN'T

I propose the #DisabledPeopleBefore

example #DisabledPeopleBefore disposable plastic straws had limited access to nutrition if they had difficulty chewing

or were subject to invasive medical procedures

or sometimes just died

#DisabledPeopleBefore contemporary integration strategies often spent their lives

segregated in institutions

isolated from the public by their own damn families

historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/disa…

#DisabledPeopleBefore Manual wheelchairs

Had to rely on being pushed by someone else in something called an invalid chair

They had no autonomy

this is actually a better hashtag

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