Care Tactics | Laura Mauldin

My bodymind was no longer the type of person who could feel welcome and at home on campus: every place was unprepared for me. The entrances to buildings I needed to use were all on the back or the side, impossible to find.

She should have exercised more!) and then denies proper access and care because they have a “lifestyle disease.” (Disgusting phrase.) This shows up around lung cancer (if you get a lung-cancer

Jean begins to see the problems with this attitude—that disabled people must always strive to be as “normal” as possible, to learn to walk

also know personally that a function of ableism is that it forces disabled people to navigate systems in isolation, so most people do not actually have a clue about what our lives are like. I