“The only disability is a bad attitude” is one of those glib sayings that has always made me cringe. There's quite a few problems with it, with the glaringly obvious one being that IT'S NOT TRUE.
I've always felt a bit mean for thinking that though, because it's clearly meant in a nice way, right? To show how INSPIRING disabled people are?
Turns out there's a word for that: Inspiration Porn. Stella Young (who sadly passed away recently) makes some fantastic points about it. She also says what I've suspected all along:
“No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.”
