Ableism is alive and well in the UK and the pandemic has exposed how deeply rooted it is in our society.
From disabled people being yelled at on trains in supermarkets to even a 5-year-old autistic boy being yelled at by a grown adult for being unable to wear a mask.
I recently asked disabled people on Twitter and tumble about their experience with ableism and I was told stories of nightclubs using disabled toilets as storage, having to hide their disabilities to get a job, and even people taking pleasure in humiliating disabled people in public.
Ableist language has also taken over our political discord, how many times have you heard a politician be called a psychopathic or a sociopath, and in one case count binface saying Boris was insane and should be locked up in am an asylum.
And even our national health service isn’t safe from ableism with doctors often putting real problems down as just anxiety if the person has mental health problems and still using the outdated term Asperger’s.
The most extreme example of ableism though was when our government at the height of the pandemic forced DNR orders onto people with learning difficulties, they did this twice and only stopped cause they got caught.
So in summary ableism is deeply rooted in the UK and we must get rid of it.
Lancashire lad politics 