Moments of ableism

There are moments of ableism: incidents that take up a few minutes of our lives, leaving sharp, jagged edges we can sometimes smooth out, but not always.

Other times ableist attitudes affect our lives for longer periods of time. They may leave dreams suspended or put unnecessary obstacles in our way that must be cleared away, inch by painful inch, as we watch months pass by.

Or ableism may shut doors for a lifetime.

Time and ableism coexist in our lives, sometimes colliding like super novas, stellar explosions that shatter into hot, molten fragments, falling to the ground to cool off after flooding our world with a light so painful we can barely look.

The particulars don't matter. Time does. We can't get the minutes, hours, days, months and years back that we've lost to ableism and its effects.

We want to live in a world now that doesn't have ableism.

We deserve better. Our children deserve better.



{this post was written for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009. You can read others at the host site, Diary of a Goldfish.]