Are You Inspired Yet?

You shouldn’t be.

People have told me I’m an inspiration before, and it seems like any time you see something on the news about cripples it’s some patronizing story about how inspiring gimpy mcgimp is. It’s bullshit.

I’m just living my life. I haven’t done anything particularly great to begin with, but for the sake of this post lets pretend I have. I’m just doing what you do. I want the same things you want.

Why is ot patronizing? It’s patronizing because by telling me that I’m inspiring for doing what I do you’ve basically just told me that I shouldn’t be doing the things you do, but somehow I’ve overcome everything and surpassed your extremely low expectations. Fuck you.

People also say if they were in my position, they couldn’t do it. Bullshit. You could be in my situation one of two ways.

1. Like me you were born this way

2. You were in an accident

If you were born this way you’d know no other way of life and you’d do what you do and get pissed every time you were called an inspiration.

If you were in an accident there would be an adjustment period, and most likely depression. But you’d come out of it, and when you did you’d move on with your life. That’s part of being human.

Disabled people aren’t really doing anything amazing, we’re just adapting to situations and circumstances, just like everyone else…It’s human nature. It’s not inspiring, it’s genetic.

Are all my faults inspirational too? I drink, I smoke, I swear, I’ve done drugs, I hate two people in this world and wish them nothing but misery, I’ve lied, I’ve stolen, I’ve cheated, I lust, i like meaningless sex, etc… I’m no different then most of you, and you sure as fuck aren’t inspiring.

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