Amanda Unvarnished

@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @MoonCat And as far as your question "who else?" is concerned: Are you really going to tell me that all the inspiration prostitutes out there (looking at you Michael Hingson) really aren't making any difference at all? Because all the people claiming unawareness have computers in their pocket and by this point should at least be aware that people with disabilities do all sorts of things.

@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @MoonCat You might have a point generally. This isn't a general case, it's pretty specific, and trying to rigidly apply a great general principle to a case like this is what tends to raise hackles.

@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @MoonCat If you work for an agency that's supposed to serve people with disabilities I don't think you can exactly claim outsider/unaware status anymore. You might not be aware of every nuance, but you should at least be aware of the basics of accommodations people might ask for and I'm not sure you should have to be trained on that.

@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @MoonCat It's not ableist to be baffled. It's absolutely ableist to cross-examine someone who's asking for a specific accommodation, as this agent seems to be doing. That's not ignorance anymore, it's ableism and it's leveraging their curiosity in order to make someone's life just a bit more difficult.

@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @MoonCat educate everybody all the time.

@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @MoonCat Shorter version: Asking PWD/whoever to accommodate ignorance, especially when it's doubtful that ignorance is what's solely driving all this, puts all of us in the position of having to solve problems that we didn't create. It also puts the responsibility on us to educate people who in a lot of cases are doing their best to remain uneducated. And it's just not our job to +