Hashtag of the day: AbledsAreWeird - aymem stories

EVERY DAY ON THE INTERNET SOMETHING IS GOING ON: someone releases clips, someone launches hashtags, and someone says smart (or not so) things - and we focus on the most important or just curious.

#AbledsAreWeird

“I remember how a stranger threw my crutch into the pool in order to“ help me swim ”,” the writer and activist Imani Barbarin wrote on Twitter on March 15. She later clarified: at that time she was only nine years old, and the stranger did not help her pull a crutch out of the water. He stayed there for a long time to rust.

Barbarin has cerebral palsy. In her posts, lectures and articles she supports the ideas of feminism, opposes racism and discrimination against people with disabilities. Following it, other Internet users began telling Euidm’s stories that happened to them: how pedestrians and new acquaintances asked them tactless questions, made inappropriate suggestions, pestered with unsolicited comments or pity. Some also talked about cases where outsiders without disabilities spoke to them exaggeratedly enthusiastically, calling them "an inspiring example."