Ability

**Ability Activists** are the woke people fixate primarily on the social justice issue of **ability and disabilities** and the rights of the disabled. They believe that disabled people should have equal opportunities and rights as the abled people. Being opposed to this, IE discriminating based on ability, is **ableism** and anyone who is opposed to this is **ableist** (a variety of istaphobe). Some disability activism is good; for instance the creation of handicapped parking spaces so the handicapped could have easy access to placed, and also laws requiring establishments to have disabled access such as ramps for those in wheelchairs.

There are many disabled people that fit the category. The first are physically disabled people, who are those who have lost limbs, have been confined by some medical condition to a wheelchair, or require extra assistance and cannot live on their own. It may also include those with birth defects such as those with Down Syndrome. The next are mentally disabled people from birth which include **neurodivergent people** as opposed to the abled neurotypical people and focus on **Neurodiversity** which is a form of pride to increase awareness so people are more accommodating and accepting and understanding. Those who fit this description include those with learning disabilities and other cognitive disabilities. The most notable and vocal people in this group is the Autistic Community although other mental conditions such as clinical ADHD and so on are also included.

Some would also classify people suffering pathological disorders (not necessarily from birth and may be treated) as mentally disabled and thus would include manic and depressive disorders (Bipolar disorder and clinical depression), schizophrenia, or anxiety disorder (General Anxiety Disorder, OCD, PTSD, eating disorder) in the classification and community. Unlike with neurodivergence the efforts of the community is not to increase pride, but to increase awareness and acceptance of these conditions so these people can receive faster and better treatment without undergoing further mental damage by being mocked at or discriminated against.

## Consequences

Unfortunately, the increased emphasis on ability due to wokeness has caused a watering down of the community. To get attention, many people will claim they have certain mental disorders (usually anxiety or depression) when in fact they are simply feeling a little antsy or they are going through a sad phase. This is offensive because it marginalizes the actual genuine problems that people with real disabilities are facing just so the person can gain attention and pity points. In addition mental disability is an easy way for snowflakes to add terms to their identity since unlike race and similar qualities it is impossible to invalidate and trying to question it makes you look like an arse who is not respectful of the struggles the person may (or may not be) going through.

In Pop Culture, disabled people like to see themselves on the screen so many people will do so, which also promotes Diverse Representation. However those who do this must be wary because the ability activists are the easiest to offend when it comes to doing diverse representation incorrectly, since in this case it is actually possible to do it incorrectly. It is not enough to show disabled people, the people on screen must be accurate reflections of how disabled people actually act and appear, not a fictionalized version, or else they will quickly take offense. One solution many disabled people propose is to cast actual disabled people in the role, and in fact many in the disabled community get mad if a disabled character is not casted with a disabled actor since this is sort of like their equivalent to whitewashing. A notable example of this is when singer Sia's personal vanity project, a movie called Music, featured an autistic character not played by an autistic actor and the show was derided and bombed as a result.