“You Don’t Look Sick”

Here’s the issue with telling someone they don’t look sick or they’re too young to have problems: it completely invalidates their experiences and adds to the idea that disability has a “look”. It defines an experience that no one but the disabled person has knowledge of. Abled people believe this is nice, to say that

Let’s Talk About #Cripple Punk

Cripple Punk, started by Tai (crpl-pnk on Tumblr) is a movement by the physically disabled for the physically disabled. Since Tai originally posted about it on Tumblr in 2015, it has grown exponentially and become this amazing community proving that physical disability doesn’t have a “look”. I mention this because I’m physically disabled (hi, I’m