How am I as a feminist supposed to respect people from India, or Saudi Arabia when women routinely get stoned for acts their husbands perpetrated, for daring to want to drive a car, or because they don’t want their clits cut off because it makes them ‘dirty’.

Choice and autonomous decision making are incredibly important. However, the author did not interview people with disabilities or spinal cord injury prior to writing the novel. I think in order to portray this story accurately, the author should have incorporated their ideas and not just have written from her own…

Depression and schizophrenia are not always treatable. Everyone is different. A treatment that works works well on person A may very well make person B (with same condition, experiencing very similar symptoms) feel nauseated 24/7, develop a nervous tick or experience life-threatening side effects such as shortness of…

I wish I could say I was surprised by the number of commenters putting ‘non-disabled person’s imagination’ over ‘whatever actual disabled people have to say’.

Thank you! If the author herself were disabled it’d be a whole different discussion. This is very much emotional manipulation that is meant to be read as deep and thought provoking. It’s shallow as fuck.

The problem is that this character is not a real person. He is a fictional character with no agency; he can’t “choose” anything. The author has chosen to create a story where the ideal outcome is the disabled person dying. Its a problem when the only stories about disabled people we can imagine are ones where…

But your imagination of what it might feel like to be disabled is not the same as actually being disabled. Check out some of the hashtags being used on Twitter by disabled people to talk about this so you can gain some insight into their viewpoints. #MeBeforeEuthanasia, for example. As with any less privileged group,…

The thing is that the character isn’t a real person. He doesn’t have agency because he doesn’t exist. He was made up by a non-disabled person.