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   Mariia Sydoruk (caoimhe@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:30:27 JST Mariia Sydoruk

   I find it really frustrating that people take the first attempts of disabled people to do something as an indication of whether they can do it or not, without realizing that anyone can fail when doing something for the first time just because they have never done it before. This is a huge double standard that I don't hear people talk about often for some reason. Today I saw a parent forbidding their blind child from cooking because she once accidentally spilled salt on the counter. The fact that the girl is rarely ever allowed to cook and doesn't have much experience somehow slipped their mind. Not to mention that such things can happen and do happen to literally anyone. I've also been in situations where people wouldn't let me go somewhere on my own, because they saw me get lost once. The fact that it's normal to sometimes get lost and not know the exact route if you have never been to that place before, again, slipped their mind. And God forbid if I tell them about this one time when I didn't get to the right place with Google maps. I keep being reminded of it every single time I want to go somewhere. I understand that those people are worried and everything, but damn. This only makes things worse because it's normal to learn from mistakes, and it's normal to make such mistakes. Maybe... I guess not for us.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:36:05 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @Caoimhe

     #VisionImpairment #Inclusion #Parenting

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     "Today I saw a parent forbidding their blind child from cooking because she once accidentally spilled salt on the counter."

     One of my friends has been blind since he was a teenager. He lives in a house by himself. He is one of the best hobby cooks that I know, knowing all recepies by heart. He even produces his own sausage.--oh, and no, he isn't working as a cook and belongs to a much different profession.

     These parents are...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:39:24 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @Caoimhe

     #VisionImpairment #Inclusion #Parenting #Cooking

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     ...damaging their child's prospect of becoming an independent adult.

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     Disclaimer:
     I wouldn't let a pree-teen cook on his/her own on a gas stove either, though if this were the reason.