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Sly Fawkes's avatar

The doctor's office where my son and I go does have roomier seating options in the waiting area. What appalls me is the fact that disabled people are expected to get up on the examination table. I'm able to walk, but hoisting myself up on the exam table is no small feat. I find this ridiculous. What do they do for people who are literally unable to walk? I thought that disability laws in the US insured workable accommodations for disabled patients.

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Amy E. Harth, PhD's avatar

The distinction between intrinsic and internalized is valuable. I want to expand on the example for internalized because I think it can is nuanced. The idea here isn’t just that a fat person is aware that the medical system often doesn’t have equipment and resources that fit fat bodies but that this is ok. This is ok to fat people with internalized weight stigma because they believe their bodies are the problem and shouldn’t be accommodated rather than seeing the problem as the lack of appropriate healthcare for bodies of all sizes.

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