The Validation Fairy

[Ylva]

Here's a pretty good article regarding boundaries for disabled people in general, not just autistics. We are part of a larger community, folks. And they get treated like crap too.

https://www.realsocialskills.org/bl...sionals-mean-when-they-say-tell-us-your-story

 

[Mia]

Recall encountering a guy in an wheelchair in front of a popular cafe. The exterior ramp had been blocked by several cars. The guy kept attempting to get out. This made me extremely angry. I held my hand up and said to him "wait."

Went inside turned the microphone around at the cashiers and well, I didn't swear: "Would the people who blocked the wheelchair ramp with their cars go and move your cars now!" Two different people got up and moved their cars. They weren't embarrassed. Which made me even angrier. I wished I could have made them sit in a wheelchair in the sun for a long time.