Ableism in the Form of Wellness Culture

Equally disappointed in and grateful for modern medicine because my recent mysteries have been solved but I wouldn’t have had to experience those mysteries if my doctors had been more careful in what they were prescribing me.

I know it’s a patient’s responsibility to know what they’re taking, but when you have many medications for many different issues and most of them are actually necessary for your survival…you kind of have to trust the experts.

There are a lot of things I don’t agree with in western medicine, and I take a holistic and mindful approach to my health because I believe in my intuition and the mind/body connection more than I believe in some stranger to tell ME what I’M experiencing. However, I’m not a scientist, I have not been to medical school, and therefore need assistance when it comes to regulating things like my blood pressure, thyroid, and other body parts that are supposed to function without you thinking about them.

It’s so easy to discard western medicine if you don’t *need* it. But, meditation won’t make a diabetic suddenly produce insulin. People will bring up ancient history and how things were cured naturally. The people bringing that up are forgetting that any human born with any sort of issue was literally discarded. Disabled people did not exist in ancient history. Modern medicine has enabled us to live longer and become a part of society. Ableism is our history. Our worth as humans has been tied to our productivity since we were scavenging for berries and hunting with our bare hands. “You can’t hunt or scavenge? Sorry. You can’t live. We don’t have the resources.”

Thankfully society has improved to the point of allowing disabled people to be alive. However, now our plight is with the quality of life we are allowed and the mistreatment we receive because of our differences.

Disabled people are people. Disabled people have worth. Disabled people deserve to have good lives.

If you disagree with any of the above statements, please unfollow me and go touch some grass.

If you think every medical problem should be handled with natural solutions, I hope you think about how many people in your life simply wouldn’t exist if modern medicine didn’t exist.

Some food for thought.