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I was thinking again as I fell asleep last night about the weird way "crutch" is often used to mean "unnecessary and counter-productive support". I honestly don't quite get how that etymology developed but it's damn ableist.
I mean, a lot of other ableist language usages I get where they come from but this link is really confusing to me. It would make sense if it were playing on the good old "Disability Faker" trope but the "counter-productive for the user" thing doesn't fit that.
Regardless of the etymology, I do think it's a really harmful usage and it reinforces shitty attitudes about accessibility tools.
It's really common for accessibility tools to be painted as "enabling" or "preventing people from developing skills to their full potential". And I think the "crutch" link doesn't help.
It's weird. Maybe it's just an underlying resentment of accessibility tools that's strengthened by not recognizing how one personally benefits from them... I dunno. Brainfog.
I wonder if it's the idea of a crutch as a temporary aid that you're supposed to stop using when you no longer need it?
I mean, that would make sense. It's weird because some people act like that means those tools should never be used at all though.
Or when they call addiction and/or mental illness symptoms a crutch so it’s doubly ableist. 
My drug use it what makes it possible to function in this world... its not a crutch, it's a band-aid bc the legal medical system refused to see or treat my pain. I hate that term.
In an especially gross use case, for academic settings its also used to negstively describe accommodations. A professor once said he didn't want me using software as a crutch and I was kind of like "... but I need it to keep up with the class?"
um hm. yep. i've had professors say that about interpreters, extra time on exams, anything that's an accommodation. :( and for the interpreter, i can't understand the class without them?
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