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@Konaburd No accessibility feature should ever be used to make life less accessible for others. Nor should anything that helps disabled people be restricted, policed.

No abled rando on the internet (and they are basically always abled) has any fucking right to decide who is disabled enough for their liking. That's not called being supportive -- indeed, it is the very opposite. It is what keeps disabled people from asking from help, from using disability aids, even when it keeps them from doing things or risks harm, all because they feel they will be judged.

To whoever reported Konaburd for using a tag specifically thought up for people like them: you are an ableist bigot, and a despicable internet cop to boot. Don't bloody hide under the cover of supporting blind people, either, because you are no different from the assholes who shout "You don't look blind!" at my friends on the street, or family members keeping visually impaired people from using canes because "they should be only for those that really need them". It is not your business to decide who "really" needs help, or why.

And if you think they're faking it? 1. You're almost certainly wrong and 2. It doesn't matter. I'd much rather some perfectly abled people "abuse" the #Alt4Me hashtag and get assistance, than have a disabled person not get it because they cannot prove their disability to your satisfaction. We do not need to prove anything to you, be we physically disabled, neurodivergent, or both. We exist; get used to it.

Signed: a blind person

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