Everybody deserves kindness, compassion, and empathy.

Ableist people also include people that idealize not being ableist. They come up with excuses like, “I’m not being ableist, I’m just giving you hard love!” or, “You need to do what I say and do it exactly how I say because I care about you!”.

There was a reddit thread where many people were dog-piling on a severely disabled person. The person was diagnosed with autism with intellectual disability, a severe heart condition, severe PTSD, and ADHD.

Many people came into the thread to say that they were making up their disability, that they should be institutionalized, that they were a troll because their doctor wouldn’t give them bad advice to deal with their heart condition, and so forth.