I'm sorry but this is a very offensive thing that you are doing. What about the normal people without disabilities? We're special too! And isn't it kind of degrading you're glorifying disabled people? I thought disabled people didn't want to be treated any differently.

Let’s get one thing straight: you abled people are not normal. You are not special. You are common as shit.

How is it degrading for a group of disabled people to celebrate and to bring attention to disability? Disabledness deserves to be glorified. Disabled people deserve to be glorified. We are fucking amazing and unique, we deserve to be sung to the heavens. And yet, we are ignored. We are erased. We are mocked and turned into running jokes. We become infantilized inspirations so abled fucks can feel better about themselves. We are scorned and spat upon as monsters so abled people can sleep better at night. We are seen as the ultimate horror stories for abled people, who think it is perfectly okay to go up to you and say in an overly sympathetic voice, “if I were in your position, I’d kill myself.” Our humanity has been stripped from us, and nobody cares or notices.

Disabilityfest is to celebrate disability in all of its glory, but it is also to bring attention to people’s failure in seeing us as fully fledged human beings, worthy of being represented, worth fighting for.

Go fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw. I can barely even type I’m so disgusted.

-K