theconcealedweapon:

sweetschizo:

“You can do anything you put your mind to”

If that’s true, why don’t you take off and fly instead of walking? If that’s true, why don’t you jump instead of taking the stairs? If that’s true, why don’t you run instead of driving your car?

We all have limits – it’s just that some limits are so common that they’re being acknowledged and accommodated by society and thus aren’t seen as limits as reasonable accommodations for these limits exist in our current society.

Having limits only becomes a problem when you have limits that most people don’t have due to mental illnesses or physical/mental disabilities, because these limits aren’t accommodated or acknowledged by society.

If you’re a neurotypical, ablebodied person, you likely won’t notice your limits as society is built to accommodate them, but there’s plenty of things you can’t do – the thing is, you aren’t expected to.

Please take a step out of your bobble of privilege and realize that for some people, working or studying 8 hours a day is as impossible as flying like a bird is to you and stop telling disabled and mentally ill people that they can do everything they put their mind to.

Cause none of us can – not even you. You’re just lucky that the limits you do have is shared by the majority of the population. Many of us aren’t that lucky.

People don’t become successful by trying to do something that’s outside their limits. They become successful by accepting that something is outside their limits and trying to find something else that’s within their limits.

For abled people, that’s painfully obvious.

In the time that a disabled person wastes by trying to do something they can’t, they could instead accept that they can’t and find something else that they can.