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Disabled social-media influencers who brighten your day by showing how they go grocery shopping are obscuring a much more important conversation, ...

If people get the warm fuzzies when they watch videos of me romping with my guide dog, or when they virtually accompany me to the grocery store, they are likely to think: “Wow, that’s great. It’s similar to people who will jack up the price of gold-plated jewelry from a far-off country, because undiscerning shoppers here won’t know any better. It boils down to this: Inspiration porn makes the mundane seem uniquely extraordinary. Those are the things we want most of all, more than someone attending our TED Talks, or following us on Instagram. And a 12-year-old wheelchair user who’s the next keynote speaker at a community fundraising event. When anyone asks me the ultimate goals of my disability related advocacy, my answer is simple.