A couple of days ago the BBC’s online magazine on disability, Ouch!, published an article about the phenomenon of unwanted touching by nondisabled people that is endured by many people with disabilities. The prompt for the article was the report of a woman wheelchair user who had embellished her wheelchair with metal spikes on the handles in an attempt to stop them being grabbed by (supposed) ‘helpers’.

The article explains very well why this physical contact, which often also includes moving the wheelchair bodily, is unwanted. Other people with disabilities added their voices, proving that blind, mobility impaired, or otherwise anomalously embodied people are also treated as literally up for grabs by the nondisabled world.

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When I posted this article on Facebook I’ve received some comments from non-disabled people, to the effect that the disabled people were either exaggerating or oversensitive, since they (the nondisabled commentators) never noticed it as a problem. Now, the only possible responses to that argument are (a) well, you wouldn’t notice it, would you; and (b) in any case, it’s not really your place to judge whether the reports are exaggerated or not. This form of epistemic injustice (it can’t actually be that bad) is experienced only too frequently by people with disabilities.

It’s certainly not confined to people with mobility or visual impairments either. As a deaf person I routinely encounter people who think that, if I don’t seem to have heard them, it’s appropriate then to shove me in one direction or another. From this experience I can say from that being manhandled like this is not just alarming: it’s an act that confirms what disabled people already suspect, that much of the world doesn’t think we are worth the consideration that is given ‘normal’ people.

Editor’s Note: there is a useful set of primers on disability etiquette you might take a look at if you want to see some ways you can ensure that you are respectful of disabled folks, regardless of whether you yourself are disabled. Those of us who are disabled may need a little help on how to interact with folks whose disabilities are different from our own, and those of us who are not presently disabled might need a little help all around. Keep in mind that no single source of advice will have all the answers!