Why disabled people should embrace public anger: A reflection on insulin pump failures
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Summary
The author wrote a post about their insulin pump failing 1-2 times daily while on vacation, which gained traction on Hacker News and BoingBoing. Many commenters expressed fear about the author's anger. The author deliberately wrote the post to confront audiences with that anger, arguing that disabled and medication-dependent people should embrace and publicly voice their anger as a politically expedient act. The piece is a reflection on the reaction to their original post and a call for disabled people to express justified anger without being silenced by others' discomfort.
Key quotes
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I believe that this anger is politically expedient and that more disabled, medication-dependent people should embrace and voice their anger, in public, to audiences who are frightened by it.
A lot of the commenters on Hacker News seemed very scared about how angry I was.
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