attackfish

That's an aspect of ableism I hadn't thought about before, so thank you for bringing it up. I'm planning two sort-of-fanfic stories where two of the main characters have physical disabilities, but these are obvious disabilities that no one could accuse them of faking. (Although, would anyone accuse a deaf person of pretending not to hear? I hate to imagine such colossal heights of assholism...) These will be a couple of years in the making, assuming they ever see the light of day, and I'm just in the reading-whatever-comes-my-way stage of disorganized research. So it's great to think of different aspects of the prejudices disabled individuals face, and for all their tremendously varying experiences that violence of conformity, the fear of difference, seems to be a common thread.