Look I get that we all want to relate to one another. I really do. But seeing people on my post about how shitty it is to exist as a visibly deformed & disabled person in public say things like “that’s why i don’t stim in public” or “that’s why i’m scared to bring my cane in public” is just… You’re missing the point.
Some of us cannot mask our disabilities. You can simply not stim if you can supress it in the first place. You can leave your cane at home if you’re doing that already in the first place. A knee brace doesn’t make you look like a “freak”. You do appear abled otherwise.
I cannot. Many people I know cannot. I can’t just “hide” my deformities and abnormal gait or convulsions to appear abled. I *need* my crutches everywhere I go. I can’t supress my tics. Full-time wheelchair users exist. High support needs autistics exist. Schizospecs who cannot mask exist. People with William’s Sydrome, Down’s Syndrome and various obvious deformities exist. Little people. People with severe chemical burns or otherwise or scarring. People with Parkinson’s, Tourette’s, Huntington’s, Cerebral Palsy, every disabled person who looks “abnormal”.
We can’t just “turn it off” like you. People WILL stare at us. Point their fingers at us. We have no power. They used to put us into freakshows. Not you. Not you who can hide your disability to “appear normal”. That post was not for you to “relate to”. I and many people are sick of many invisibly disabled people claiming they “want to look disabled” so they’d be “taken more seriously”. It’s not an invitation of you to declare you leaving your mobility aid at home or shit like that. It’s not the damn same.