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  Giving people with a toddler's cognitive abilities a diploma so you can make a feel-good news story about it. It's like the new version of a freak show, but if you call people out on it, they turn on you.
context: I'm blind and I can CONFIDENTLY say that the vast majority of the blind community doesn't want their every move to become inspiration porn. People say things like "it's incredible you do these things in spite of your disability" but it's like, dude, we literally do not have any choice in the matter. We just want to go about our lives and mind our own buisness like anybody else >
  
  I can see this now.   Thank you >
  
  I see what you did there- Wait a tick... >
  
  We elected the two students with Down's Syndrome as prom king and queen. They were super happy. This was back in 2000 though, so nobody recorded it and put it on the internet. It was just something nice we thought we were doing. >
  
  You should feel bad about it now, I guess >
  
  I should feel bad about everything I've ever done or said, if Reddit is to be believed. >
  
  Yeah, inspiration porn sucks. It’s getting to the point where even genuinely heartwarming stories about the disabled community annoys me. >
  
  It's the push for inclusiveness! It has gone overboard- I agree! >
  
  What do you mean by “the push of inclusiveness”? >
  
  I don't think I used the correct term at all. Essentially, there are a lot more disabled folk used in stock images and whatnot as you said (a good thing that is maybe having odd side effects?). Businesses get a pat on the back for demonstrating "inclusiveness" by using us in their ads, then carry on with their usual business completely unrelated to disability? I hope that makes sense?
  I find that instead of awareness and understanding, disabled folk are getting more infantilization and/or fetishizing which is kind of strange.
  (Literally agreeing with your post so if you are downvoting me, you're downvoting your own choir.) >
  
  I agree 100% >
  
  There are tons of posts on subs like r/humansaremetal of disabled people just doing fairly mundane shit >
  
  If it’s obvious pandering I don’t like it either, but I appreciate that visual media has become more inclusive of representing different types of people. >
  
  But how visible is your disability!!!!!111
  After all, it is not you who may decide how to approach that.