I got judged often for not dressing like a poor disabled woman 'should' dress. WTAF is wrong with people?!?! Just because I'm physically disabled for life & am of working poor class, doesn't mean I can't fucking look fabulous!
I've always been great at repurposing/upcycling shit before those were actual terms. I grew up very physically & neurologically disabled, was extremely poor & I learned how to adapt very well because both my parents taught me multiple useful skills. I adapted clothes & made myself outfits because nothing on racks fit people like me too well. I started doing adaptive fashion designs for myself & still do.
I am starting to look at making my childhood dreams, much bigger. I want to start designing super cool fashions for other physically disabled folks, of all ages - who also don't want only drab basics but want to expand their fashion styles to bigger horizons.
I can do this.
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@PhoenixSerenity What you describe sounds a lot like projection. What they judge is not something that would affect them personally, i'd assume they feel like they take too much, or get too little, and then project it onto someone that (they assume) cannot fight back too much. What other reason could there be?
@PhoenixSerenity Hmm, i'd say there are bad things people do (ableism, classism etc.) and motivations why they do it (projection, being trained to do them by parents, society).
I try to seperate those in order to place responsibility at the feet of the correct party, in this case the people that judge and those that trained them to. This is supposed to keep away victim blaming, since naming the bad action does not explicitly say that the victim did nothing to provoke this.
So yes, ableism, but i find the view with projection more powerful to rebuff the judgement nobody asked for.
