Crimini d’odio contro i disabili: “Questo è il peggiore che abbia mai vissuto”

I use a powerchair, and in the last year, I’ve been asked why my legs don’t work multiple times in public.

A drunk lady got in my face and sang the “they see me rolling” song.

Ive had children shout “Timmey” at me a few times

In previous years, I’ve been assaulted on a few occasions due to my disablity, including people trying to sexually assault me in public because they view me as an easy target. It’s disgusting and I genuinly don’t know how the public will react to me when I go out.

Will I be ignored? Will I be assaulted? Will I be mocked?

I’m a large bloke as well, so I can only imagine how much worse it is for female wheelchair users.

I don’t tend to report hate crimes or hate incidents anymore, as the process of pursuing them can be just as traumatic as the incidents. I’m having to get used to being discriminated against regularly by business and service providers; to have members of the public join in the fun, too, is deeply dehumanising and a condemnation of how open our culture is to difference currently.

I have so much to contribute, but I’m judged on a surface level that doesn’t often see beyond mobility equipment and whatever ‘humorous’ observation it brings to mind.

If the abuse I was receiving was racist or homophobic, society would be up in arms, but ableism is viewed as less important for some reason and has absolutley been left behind as social cause

Labour are directly to blame for this. The way they have been speaking about disabled people is fucking unforgivable. 

Give it time, could be getting worse, but.

Don’t worry ! Just be happy !

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU)

Used to take a severely (and quite visibly) disabled loved one out, and would see it, especially going into the 2010’s felt like things took a turn for the worse and went backwards socially when the government (and media) put the screws in further on disabled people (along with the unemployed) allegedly being spongers and somehow responsible for the financial crisis shitshow/hardship on the public.

Like they attempted to justify the disgusting behavior because of some poverty porn they watched on television or the story about that one person out of hundreds who popped almost a dozen kids and applied their disdain unilaterally

Doesn’t get any better when you have non visible stuff going on as well and I say that as someone who has worked their entire adult life, because I know and have seen how stuff can happen at the drop of a hat with your health even if you do everything right

I’d wager those figures (being down) were bollocks because if I’m not mistaken they are based off of actual reports, where as in the current climate alot of stuff goes unreported and even then, some are fobbed off when they try. Like the police are quite literally overwhelmed.

This is what happens when the right fear mongers.

Yes, immigrants are getting the brunt of it right now, but I still see these garbage tabloid rags complaining about how much it costs for this that and the other, all the time.