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'''Invisible disabilities''' are ''disabilities and chronic illnesses that are not immediately visible when you see or meet a person; brain injuries, learning disabilities, mental health struggles, chronic pain, etc. - ''Invisible Disability Project, adapted by Michelle Xie  <ref>https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HC35f2kDXc8cgLYWc9_oUZmINoTfP3_I</ref>  
'''Invisible disabilities''' are ''disabilities and chronic illnesses that are not immediately visible when you see or meet a person. - ''Invisible Disability Project, adapted by Michelle Xie  <ref>https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HC35f2kDXc8cgLYWc9_oUZmINoTfP3_I</ref>


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== Examples of invisible disabilities ==
== Examples of invisible disabilities ==


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Disposability discourse
'''Mental health struggles'''
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Much discussion around the severity of COVID was lessened by expressing how it mainly sickens and kills elderly, chronically ill, and disabled people. This discourse suggests these groups are seen disposable.&nbsp;
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Loosened restrictions too early
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When governments loosened COVID restrictions in response to business demands, political pressure, and public impatience, rather than scientific evidence, high risk populations (the chronically ill, disabled and elderly) were subsequently told they are disposable yet again.&nbsp;
*For example, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders etc.<br>
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Working through illness
'''Chronic pain'''
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Regulations around how many sick days should be required when someone falls ill with COVID also demonstrated ableism. In relation to these regulations, and in favour of profit above health, many politicians including US President Joe Biden, praised themselves for working through COVID, instead of encouraging people to rest and recover if they'd fallen ill.&nbsp;
*For example, arthritis, endometriosis, chronic pain syndrome, fibromyalgia etc.
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Individualism
'''Autoimmune diseases'''
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Individuals have been encouraged to make 'personal' choices on vaccines (without legitimate health restrictions), masks and gatherings.
*For example AIDS, HIV, MS, diabetes, IBD etc.
 
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"''There is no individual safety without collective safety and collective safety requires that no one is safe unless everyone is safe." - Mia Mingus  <ref>https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/</ref>  ''
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*Being neurodivergent (i.e. ADHD, autism) often requires the use of additional time and energy that neurotypical persons would not require for the same actions.
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Latest revision as of 16:15, 26 February 2024

Invisible disabilities are disabilities and chronic illnesses that are not immediately visible when you see or meet a person. - Invisible Disability Project, adapted by Michelle Xie [1]


Examples of invisible disabilities

Mental health struggles

  • For example, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders etc.

Chronic pain

  • For example, arthritis, endometriosis, chronic pain syndrome, fibromyalgia etc.

Autoimmune diseases

  • For example AIDS, HIV, MS, diabetes, IBD etc.
Neurodivergence
  • Being neurodivergent (i.e. ADHD, autism) often requires the use of additional time and energy that neurotypical persons would not require for the same actions.


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