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Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

Since my medical issues started back up I've been watching stuff from disability advocates on Instagram, and I really want to know who exactly decided what disabled people are supposed to look like and what the age limit for having a disability is. Because the two most common comments they get from random strangers is "you don't look disabled" and "you're two young to be disabled".
It's also worth remembering that are a lot of disabilities where the severity changes from day to day, so just because you see a person using a wheelchair today, after you saw them up walking around yesterday, doesn't mean they're faking it. Hell I go back and forth between walking and not being able to walk multiple times in one day.
 
It's also worth remembering that are a lot of disabilities where the severity changes from day to day, so just because you see a person using a wheelchair today, after you saw them up walking around yesterday, doesn't mean they're faking it.
I went through an eye-opening example of that twenty-odd years ago. One of my co-workers in a call center used a wheelchair to get around, but one evening I saw him walking past my cubicle out of the corner of my eye. Turns out that night he was trying out his new prosthetic leg. After that, he would use the either the prosthetic or the chair, depending on how his leg felt that day.
 
The operators of a Dairy Queen in Pennsylvania made a big stink about the Halloween themed food and snacks not aligning with their Christian beliefs and posted on their social media platforms that they wouldn't be selling them. They have since made their socials private.
 
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