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I don’t stop being 4'11" just cuz I’m wearing heels

Someone said this?????????? Visual impairment is a disability?! Like?????? Just because we have easy access to corrective eyewear in western countries doesn’t mean that it isn’t a disability? We’ve just normalized it like we should for like everyone’s disability??? I am just so confused when people say something super ignorant, are called out on it and then don’t like correct themselves when it comes to stuff like this.

I mean limited visibility is a disability but isn’t that saying like white is a race or heterosexual is a sexualities yeah, that’s all true they do fit those categories but they aren’t part of a historically marginalized and mistreated demographic like the other sexualities, races and disabilities they are widely accepted so like yeah it’s technically a disability but so??

??? I am legitimately lost here

usually i’d ignore this but i’ve actually been thinking about this lately. because like idek what princess-kitkat there is going on about. all the rest of their nonsense aside, a disability isn’t defined by marginalization? a disability is quite simply “unable to do a thing”. marginalization comes into play when value judgements & social stigma and fun stuff like that are added to the “unable to do a thing” fact.

and like @startorrent02 is saying up there, visual impairment is a physical disability? it’s literally “i am physically unable to see as well as other people”. which. i just. it doesn’t get anymore straight forward than that?

but that said, i’ve been thinking about glasses & disability bc I’ve also been thinking about how i’m otherwise completely able-bodied and as such I… don’t particularly consider myself disabled in terms of identity. because my disability has been so normalized - or, more precisely, accomodations & assistive devices for my disability has been so normalized.

it’s only once you get into visual impairment to the point of being classified as blindness that you really run into society going ‘wait no you are A Disabled Person’ and failing to accomodate you.

but you take away my accomodations and my assistive technology - letting people sit closer to the front to see something, printing books in larger type font, my glasses - and i’d be kind of fucked and have enough difficulty functioning that it would interfere with my life. aka: a disability.

I mostly reblogged this before because that commenter did seem to be running so far with a (shallow sounding) social model-only type approach to disability, to the point of the absurd.

As the OP keeps saying, it doesn’t stop being an impairment and causing problems for people, just because a certain readily correctable level of vision impairment doesn’t get treated as weirdly as some other obvious disabilities.

What gets me with this particular example, though? The general Western approach to vision problems does fall so firmly on the medical model side there:

This medical model approach is based on a belief that the difficulties associated with the disability should be borne wholly by the disabled person, and that the disabled person should make extra effort (perhaps in time and/or money) to ensure that they do not inconvenience anyone else.

So, yeah, if a person’s vision is correctable with the resources available to them, to a point where they can function fairly well without other accommodations, in some ways that are expected? It doesn’t get turned into that big a deal socially. If it’s not that correctable, and/or they need more accommodations? Very different story. Then people start getting obstructed and treated like crap more.

They still have a very real vision impairment to deal with, in either case.

That model is, indeed, just a model. And those distinctions don’t necessarily neatly apply to everything. But, they do seem pretty useful here, where it sounds like people are working from some different understandings around what even constitutes a disability.

People with glasses are often bullied, made fun of and mocked just for needing glasses to see in a way simmilar to that which people are bullied and mocked for other dsabilities by cruel people and it’s also worth remembering that glasses designed to help with serious problems with eyesight aren’t a thing that people can get for free…they are often fairly pricey and not everyone can afford them or, if they break or get lost, afford to get new ones right away

So yes, vision problems are a ‘real’ disability and while for a lot of people it’s one that they can easily get through life coping with it’s important to remember that the same isn’t true for everyone and that even for those who do have access to things like glasses there are still problems this can cause them especially if they have very serious problems with their eyesight

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