asdcats:

The thing with the whole “despite their disability” thing is it implies we (disabled people) just ignore our disability and just do something like any abled nt. When in reality one of four things can happen when we’re expected to do something.

1) it’s just not possible so we don’t do it (it may become possible in the future in which case we may do it then)
2) it’s technically possible but the loss (energy, physical wellbeing etc) isn’t worth the gain so we don’t do it
3) it’s possible but only if we make adjustments/aproach it differently to an abled nt
4) it’s possible and our disability has no impact on whether we could do the thing in the first place

We never do anything despite our disability. We do it with our disability taken into consideration. If we could do things despite our disability we wouldn’t be disabled.