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TAKERU & PATAMON & A CAR

#deathberi #the beginning #gifs #the beginning gifs #the beginning: target op #takeru #2012 takeru #takeru and patamon #patamon #2012 takeru and patamon #adult takeru #driving #writer takeru #the beginning: target #the beginning spoilers #(Takeru is Finally The Takeru That Was Always In My Mind)#(And I Am Here For It)#(Ever Since 02 Originally Ended For Me)#(and though I appreciate sides of later Takerus too)

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koushirouizumi

Instead of making fun of people who do things at an older age that are normally done younger ( like getting their diploma or GED, learning to drive, even learning to read ) how about you:

don’t

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finding it more and more difficult to keep a baseline level of respect for people who think "lived with parents after 18" and "can't drive" are legit insults/ acceptable jokes to make about anyone

prismatic-bell

When my mom started to go blind, she kept driving well past the point of safety because of the idea that “people who can’t drive are pathetic.” And her brother can’t drive! He’s mentally disabled! But to her, he had a reason and she didn’t. Many times after she had to stop driving she told me that losing the ability to drive was one of the hardest parts of going blind—and she didn’t even like driving. It was just the “being pathetic and helpless” part that bothered her. And my mom was a lot of things, and some weren’t very nice, but let’s all ask: did a lady in her 50s, stricken with a mystery illness that took her sight, deserve to feel even worse about herself because “not being able to drive is pathetic”?

This “joke” harms people. Full stop.

honestly this story goes so much further than just a joke being harmful. the joke is only a symptom of the larger issue of ableism. people are so scared to be seen as disabled or ‘unable to take care of themself’ in any way.