mulling in some half-baked & untested thoughts abt how the tech person’s trend of analyzing & structuring everything in their life in terms of incentives boils down to a rly depressing lack of trust in human self
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Do you sincerely believe that everyone is 100% capable of doing things they really want to do? I can honestly say that’s not true for me—if anything, sometimes the things I most deeply, desperately want to do are the hardest specifically because their importance locks up my brain
like no i understand that yes a lot of ppl truly are working with shitty hard limits and it sucks! but a lot of people simply aren’t and the current framework for the language of disability just doesn’t give space for anyone to talk about that
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i think u see this a lot with critiques of like gig economy stuff where objectively most ppl calling instacarts and 1 mile ubers don’t need them. and rn it’s impossible to ask them to actually use their ability without someone saying ur making assumptions
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That’s fair. I think the phrase “you could do it if you really cared” is uniquely common in the lives of people with ADHD (ADHD alien has a bunch of comics referencing it), which is why I reacted viscerally. I don’t think you had ill intent
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