I think it’s very important to provide accommodations for disabled people.
However, don’t disabled people have some responsibility to inform complete strangers about their disability in advance so that accommodations could be prepared? During the hiring process, it’s illegal for me to ask, “Are you disabled?” There’s no legal pathway for me to ascertain who might need accommodations and then provide them. I’m also not authorized to provide anything “just in case.”
We have all collectively engineered a situation where everybody is too scared to ask anything lest feelings be hurt and imaginary oppressions occur. This means people must take responsibility for their own needs. It’s not possible to have a community in this environment of suspicion and assumed guilt. Do for yourself, then, and don’t assume anybody else will risk their neck to help out. We don’t have a high-trust society. We have a litigious society that loves to hunt for microagressions. I’m presumed guilty of trying to oppress everybody from the get-go.






