[ SECRET POST #3420 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3420 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #489.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[belladonna_took]

This is the second "disabled people make me uncomfortable" secret in a short space of time on FS.

Seeing as both secrets featured wheelchair users I'm now wondering how many people are quietly not okay with me talking about my personal life here.

The idea that people are machines is interesting though, and a fairly common way of seeing the human body right now. Every advertisement you see for fitness and health seems to imply that you get out of your body what you're willing to spend on it, that you can fuel yourself to health and shape and control the way you look and feel by expending more energy.

Good health is a combination of both a healthy lifestyle and luck (I guess you might call it?). Some people never get the chance to experience both, but the point is that nobody can be lucky forever. We do not ultimately control our bodies. We can buy all the super smoothie makers and personal training sessions we want, but they're not making us immortal.

Also, if you refuse to acknowledge that someone with a disability can be as fulfilled and inherently valuable to this world as any other person can be, then you won't really be contributing any real representation. You'll be writing a token disabled person so that your followers will be super impressed by your commitment to diversity.

I can only speak for myself, but that's not the kind of representation I want.
You also get this gif of Aaron because if this is what "malfunctioning machines" can do, then I hope I can malfunction like this some day. Don't bother feeling guilty. Guilt isn't productive. You'll either make the effort to challenge your own perceptions or you won't. That's on you.

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Also, if you refuse to acknowledge that someone with a disability can be as fulfilled and inherently valuable to this world as any other person can be, then you won't really be contributing any real representation. You'll be writing a token disabled person so that your followers will be super impressed by your commitment to diversity.

This.

[bio_obscura]

So very well-said.

[belladonna_took]

Thank you. :)

[ketita]

This is a good comment.

[belladonna_took]

Thanks!