🙅♀️ “He can’t do that.” “She won’t understand.” “They wouldn’t want to come.”
🤔 Says who? Did anyone actually ask?
💭 An assumption is when we believe something about a person or situation without knowing all the facts.
🚧 Assumptions about disabled people get made every day, and they do real harm. They can:
- ➡️ Build false ideas about a person
- ➡️ Limit how we see someone and what we think they are capable of
- ➡️ Make someone feel misunderstood
- ➡️ Stop us from seeing that there may be different ways of doing things
- ➡️ Take away a person’s chance to decide for themselves
🧠 The fix is simple: don’t assume – just ask the person, and be open to the different ways people do things.
📹 In this video, our Resource Pool members Nadine, Charlie and Aiden talk about assumptions and what to remember.
✨ We think this line sums it up perfectly: “Just because it’s not done the way it’s always done, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.”
🇦🇺 This is made freely available to all website visitors, thanks in part to a grant from the Australian Government Department of Social Services through the Information Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) program.