I know I missed blogging about disabledism day, as set up by the goldfish. I blame my memory. Mind you, I’m unsure disabledism exists as an entity in itself. While disabled people do indeed face certain factors which hold them back compared with others, these are environmental issues which can and will be overcome. More and more these days we see ramps and lifts being put into place; people are becoming more aware of disabled people, our needs, our differences.

Thus disabledism is, at best, a shorthand for a set of other issues. It is not, I’d maintain, of the order of sexism and racism: surely no one thinks they are superior to disabled people, as white people once thought they were innately superior to black people. even if some do, by and large this stops as soon as people get to know folk like me.

There is no denying there’s much work to do. Education is the way forward – we must help people learn to accept us for who we are, and the only way we can do this is, as my grandma would say, to ‘mix’. We must fight segregation in all it’s forms, encourage people to accept us for who we are, and help change the world around us to accommodate us all equally.