A Lot Of Chronically Online People Treat Fictional Characters Like Real People And Real People Like Fictional Characters - Blog Posts

the way many self-proclaimed disability activists on Twitter automatically and without even thinking about it, treat a fellow disabled person (Luigi Mangione) like a fictional character, like he’s “representation”, like he’s not a real person experiencing real violence and incarceration in the real world, like his disabilities are character traits instead of a tangible source of suffering, goes to show how divorced many of these “disability activists” are from their own communities and their own histories. I honestly see it as no different from referring to a wheelchair user as “that person in the wheelchair” instead of using their name. we are real people. we have feelings. you are not the main character and this is not a tv show or a movie. internalize this