I'm really so tired of people trying to have these medical diagnoses handed down by unaffected professionals as cultural identities that can be appropriated from
Yup. Disability culture is a thing, but just RECEIVING A DIAGNOSIS does not automatically make you part of disability culture. You have to, like, MEANINGFULLY PARTICIPATE in social interactions with other disabled people AND pay attention to the people who came before you and paved the way for what you have now. Suffering does not automatically make you part of some precious culture which can be "appropriated" from, either, contrary to what "anti-endo" people seemed to think. Suffering is not a culture! If anything, it's a human universal which cuts across all cultures, groups, and eras!
(Not venting at you, don't worry. Just venting at this... entire concept that crying appropriation gives you the moral high ground in any situation and absolves you from having to make a case that someone else's existence, beliefs, or identity are somehow offensive to you just by existing.)
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Yup. Disability culture is a thing, but just RECEIVING A DIAGNOSIS does not automatically make you part of disability culture. You have to, like, MEANINGFULLY PARTICIPATE in social interactions with other disabled people AND pay attention to the people who came before you and paved the way for what you have now. Suffering does not automatically make you part of some precious culture which can be "appropriated" from, either, contrary to what "anti-endo" people seemed to think. Suffering is not a culture! If anything, it's a human universal which cuts across all cultures, groups, and eras!
(Not venting at you, don't worry. Just venting at this... entire concept that crying appropriation gives you the moral high ground in any situation and absolves you from having to make a case that someone else's existence, beliefs, or identity are somehow offensive to you just by existing.)
-Istevia