"It's not pie! More for other people doesn't mean less for you!" This was the howl of social media's self-declared #neurodivergence, #disability communities in the late twenty-teens and into the twenty-twenties. It sounded almost convincing, a worthy rallying call that everyone who wanted to be On The Right Side of History should immediately get behind. And if you dared to hesitate to get behind the statement, if you so much as thought that it maybe didn't sound quite right - well, you were privileged , you were guilty of ableism , you just wanted disabled people to not exist! If you were disabled yourself, and had some reservations about the pie-ness of inclusion, then you were "everything that's wrong with the world!" But - as so often happens - those who were hesitant have been proved right. It turns out that, as many disabled people with observable, high-impact impairments, who need workplace accommodations - and, most importantly, w...
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