Able Privilege, Re-Conceptualizing Disability: Alan Larson at TEDxSFA 

Brain Zero you’ve gotten 80% of it accurately. However the problem is much bigger than that.

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@@TheBengalDragon Please expand! What's that missing 20% (ftr, I have spina bifida, and ambulate with crutches) This was a very good speech, but maybe there's more.

I was actually referencing to a comment. I don't believe that much in able privilege, not that much at least. I especially don't agree with the homeless comparison. Disability is not something one can combat through hard work and make non existent without medical intervention. Disability is something that usually sticks with people through out their lives intil something medically is done. The missing 20% is this.The world will not change, neither will perceptions or expected outcomes change with no action. This is EVEN MORE TRUE for people with disabilities. Most things are based on a perception of competence. If you show competence whilst being one with a relevant disability (i.e not a man with a missing foot doing mathematics) then that person will be considered extraordinary. The point thus becomes that people with disabilities must perform at their very best whenever they get those opportunities, if perceptions are to change. THen, ALL these instances ofsucce ss MUSTBE PUBLICIZED. There is a very basic psychologicalbenefi t to all this if done properly. The problem of the lack of opportunities themselves are a combination of a perception of incompetence and a lack of awareness of what can be done to circumvent obstacles.

See here's where I differ from you. In my VAST experience with people, I realized that that there is privilege, but the current perception of "white privililege" and "male privililege" is ABSOLUTELY NONSENSE, ESPECIALLY in 2019. In the very end, a person judges another by their level of apparent and potential COMPETENCE! Despite people being born equal and what not, in the end, people are not clones, and thus will not be equally as competent in performing certain functions and fulfilling certain roles. As for the perception about disability and what not, I've started a series of videos over on my channel that looks into this further. Let me tell you one HUGE and I mean HUGE problem with a part of the current system. That problem is the perception that disability is a human variation and not a medical condition, essentially implying a person who is blind is the same as a person whi is slightly short, who is same as a person with a severe case of diabetes, who is same as a person with green eyes instead of blue ones. Yes, there are perceptions that go along with being disabled amongst friends and co workers. Is anyone trying to solve the problem? Did anyone look at it from a natural psychological point of view? As for me, in my experience and educated opinion, I know the solution. It's very simple, and this whole nonsense of Temporarilly Able Bodied bullcrap and this whole infuriating notion of transablism and what not is part of THE PROBLEM NOT THE SOLUTION!

Even people who know people with disabilities extremely well are often blind. They love the people, but they still think of it in terms of helping others with disabilities instead of "this could be me."

Isn’t being aware of one’s own privileges and advantages over others... a powerful form of empathy? We’re not pointing fingers, simply looking in the mirror to see the thing someone said is on our face.