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Noticing when you use "it's not that bad" to deny your or others reality is part of how you practice disability justice.

2/2/26, 4:33 pm1 repost5 likes

M Eilo

@blinkpopshift.com

2 Feb

I do it to myself. Like sure I spend nearly a full time job's worth of time in migraine attack every year but it's not that bad. I should still be able to do everything other people do.

M Eilo

@blinkpopshift.com

2 Feb

But it's also how people dismiss other people's pain, disability, or lack of control over something. You don't need that accomodation. It's not that bad. Your not in pain. It's not that bad.

M Eilo

@blinkpopshift.com

2 Feb

"It's not that bad." Is an attempt to gloss over reality and thus make it less terrifying and more within our control. Disability Justice is learning to look directly at the messy, conflicting, scary, out of our control, deadly, painful, annoying, inconvenient reality of the world.