Nobody specifically dislikes people with poor upbringings or people with disabilities.
Then you haven't encountered the people who say "If you can't do ____, you don't deserve to." That's what some people say about people who can't physically access things like voting stations (in 2015 some of the advance polls were on the 2nd floor of a building, and nobody had the key to the elevator since the advance polls were held over Thanksgiving weekend and the regular staff there was gone for those 3 days - so voters in wheelchairs, or who used walkers were unable to get there, and lost their chance to vote). It's also what some people say about people who can't access their own mailbox in community mailboxes. People in wheelchairs can't get to their own mail if they can't reach it. Unless they have someone to help them, they don't get their mail. Not everyone has family or friends to help, or a trustworthy neighbor.
And I've already mentioned my experience with the Returning Officer in 2015, who bent over backwards to try to deny me my right to vote by in-home special ballot. Her whole attitude just screamed that if you can't physically get to the polls, you should just shut up and stay home. But that's how the Reformacons think of those five segments of society they targeted with the UnFair Elections Act.
I'd rather the general public be invested in curing what ails me rather than be invested in "making the world accessible".
That's a nice thought, but doesn't help the people who are terminal or whose condition can't be cured in time for them to have a decent quality of life - which includes making as much of the world accessible as possible.
Get back to me when we're being experimented on again or being put on trains again.
We should never have been in that situation in the first place.
And one of the nurses at the hospital in January stated that I should move to assisted living, because "what if you don't qualify for home care? How about Bethany, that's a nice place." That was after I informed her I already had qualified for home care and had been receiving services for awhile. I also said I was happy living where I was and was not ready to move in with the 80-year-olds at a facility that AISH wouldn't begin to cover (not to mention that it's a Catholic-run facility and those - at least in Alberta - have no respect for any medical decisions people make that don't conform to church doctrine).
"They'll make it happen," was her response.
Suffice to say, I was upset. That was unprofessional of her, and I let enough other people - nurses and doctors - know that I considered it unprofessional, and so I didn't see her again.
