Can we just talk about society's ableism...
Can we just talk about society's ableism...
Is there anywhere as ableist as my family's "social circle"? Like... anyone who acts slightly "weird" just get labled my language's equivalent of [the r-word]. Social awkwardness as an adult, neurodivergence, especially autism, they all get labeled in this one category of "the stupids". Idk what the fuck my parents keep talking to, but they say back in their village (idk if father's or mother's), there is a family where the mother died, and the the son, "went crazy/stupid" (emphasis on the quotation marks), so, my mom keeps projecting that fear on me, she thinks I would be a failure like that person. I think there are like a lot of these similar stories that gets spread around from other villages.
These people just get basically abandoned by society, like sure maybe people will have pity for them, maybe they'll live, but they're basically being treated like a beggar, sort of, a nuisance, a leech, a useless eater of the villages, yea sure they'll "live", but they're just gonna get hidden away from society, never really be accepted or even tolerated in public, so fucking depressing to think about. This is mainland China btw, zero disability rights, they're not seen as human beings, just some crippled puppy/kitten that they only keep around out of pity, to make themselves seen as saints or something, because they wanna pretend like good people, they wanna get "good karma" (as in the religious/spiritual sense), yet you go on wechat, you hear all the vile shit they say to each other about them on voice calls, zero political correctness, always throwing deogratory terms. I overheard these calls first hand, that's how I learned the term “低B” (a very deogratory term, equivalent to the r-word in English). They keep using these people as an example of what "failure" is. Like: "if you don't start acting 'normal', that is you one day", this fucking society... What the hell even is "normal", is neurodivergence "insanity" now? What the hell. And the reason why I feel so depressed is because these are literally my compatriots, from around where my ancestry is. In another timeline, I could've been in their position, I could envision that universe, being in their shoes. Depressing stuff to think about.