Here you go: some selected articles from one of my favorite intersectionally aware websites.
(You could offer your PT person a deal - I'll do the homework you give, if you do the homework I give. *sarcastic smile* The response to this - I'm saying this as a teacher who has occasionally let students give *me* homework - can be illuminating.)
Articles like these have helped to inform my viewpoint. As someone who has never had physical therapy myself, I rely on the voices of those with greater experience, along with analogies and general principles, to try to understand - and I am probably going to screw up eventually, but I will keep trying.
Setting Boundaries with a Therapist (Mental Health Context) http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/6-strategies-for-setting-boundaries-with-your-therapist/ “For many people, a therapist is an authority figure because they have training and expertise, and because sometimes, they do have tangible power over their clients …. If the therapist thinks you should talk about a particular sensitive subject, don’t they know what’s best for you?… It’s true that therapists know a lot … but they don’t know everything. They also don’t know you as well as you know yourself.”
Wheelchair Use & Work http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/ableism-at-work/ “From one working person to another, I’d like to remind able bodied people that if you value professionalism, boundaries, and consent, then respecting disabled people’s boundaries when you work with us should matter to you – whether you’re at your job, their job, a job you share, or on the street.”
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Date: 2016-08-25 02:51 am (UTC)(You could offer your PT person a deal - I'll do the homework you give, if you do the homework I give. *sarcastic smile* The response to this - I'm saying this as a teacher who has occasionally let students give *me* homework - can be illuminating.)
Articles like these have helped to inform my viewpoint. As someone who has never had physical therapy myself, I rely on the voices of those with greater experience, along with analogies and general principles, to try to understand - and I am probably going to screw up eventually, but I will keep trying.
Setting Boundaries with a Therapist (Mental Health Context)
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/6-strategies-for-setting-boundaries-with-your-therapist/
“For many people, a therapist is an authority figure because they have training and expertise, and because sometimes, they do have tangible power over their clients …. If the therapist thinks you should talk about a particular sensitive subject, don’t they know what’s best for you?… It’s true that therapists know a lot … but they don’t know everything. They also don’t know you as well as you know yourself.”
Thing Not To Say To People With Chronic Pain
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/05/hurtful-things-said-to-people-with-chronic-pain/
“Keep in mind that people in chronic pain know their bodies better than you do and innocent assumptions can do a lot of unintentional damage.”
Wheelchair Use & Work
http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/ableism-at-work/
“From one working person to another, I’d like to remind able bodied people that if you value professionalism, boundaries, and consent, then respecting disabled people’s boundaries when you work with us should matter to you – whether you’re at your job, their job, a job you share, or on the street.”
Cancer, Ableism, and Misdiagnosis
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/09/medical-fat-shaming-danger/
“My doctors treated my fat, rather than investigating the real reason I was sick, and it could’ve killed me.”
If you want, I am interested to know what you think of any/all of this.