I work for a web
design and hosting company for doctors, and through that we manage their emails
through the same hosting.
Client: I can’t
sign in to my email, you guys changed my password for no reason.
Me: We did not. What
is the password you’re using for which email?
Client: The
password is ******* and the email is client@domain.
Me: Dot com or
dot net?
Client: I’m
trying to sign in to my email, not go to my website, are you an idiot?
After twenty minutes
of me trying to convince him to add the .com to the end of his email, I finally
signed in to it myself to show him it was working, and when he tried it himself
he spent a solid three minutes of signing out and signing in again muttering
about how that didn’t make sense. I left him with an outlook set up guide and a
passive aggressively extensive guide on how to type in the correct email and
password.
disabled people shouldn’t have to disclose their disability to get treated fairly
like u can’t go treating people like shit for being weird or for shit you don’t think makes sense & only turn your ass around when they admit to you they do that shit bc they’ve got [x]
like! you can’t only respect people once they’ve been forced into disclosing highly personal information to you
don’t be shit in the first place
and like this shit goes for a LOT of things! like:
acting harmlessly “weird” in literally any way
being exhausted all the time/saying they’re too tired to do stuff/needing o sit down when you’re not tired
taking a lot of meds, otc or not
talking a lot/having times where they don’t wanna talk verbally at all
asking, respectfully, for things that take very little effort from you but are mildly “weird” like not wanting to be touched, asking you to repeat yourself a couple times cos they didn’t hear, needing closed captioning on
using hand sanitizer/antiseptic after touching you or your pets etc (it’s not an insult!!)
not wanting to go to crowded events
having intense interests that you think they’re a little too into
Like fun story, your litmus test for “should I be an asshole to this person” should be “are they hurting anyone”, cos if it’s just “do i think they’re weird” you’re literally just enforcing boring regressive social rules that assume everybody’s brain and body should work exactly the same way!!
Even if your target isn’t disabled this time, you’re still reinforcing ableism by demanding obedience to rigid abled standards as “normal” and punishing variation. Disabled people need the normalization of variation, and honestly the whole damn culture benefits from it too.
