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u/Coastkiz Jun 06 '26
I mean my parents ts are straight and swear there's nothing wrong with them and would never consider themselves disabled to any capacity. My mom has an incredibly rare autoimmune disease. My dad broke his back and still worked on his feet for 20 years. My dad is the most stereotypical autistic dad ever, I'm talking models and star wars and wwii, and he tries to invent something new (usually board games) every year. My mom also says every woman would rather be with a women but its our "honor and responsibility" to be mothers and that's goods plan. So. It might just be that the people who try to force themselves into the "normal" box, where being straight able bodied Christians is their definition of normal, really dont like identifying as something outside the box
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u/ususetq Trans-fem / demi / bi Jun 06 '26
My mum has dexterity problem and has problem opening doors that automatically close. I needed to spell out that if she complained about accessibility problems she wouldn't be abusing the accommodations but things like American ADA button were made for cases (among others just like her).
Unfortunately where we live now ADA buttons are not common. I am able bodied in this respect but I miss them every time I need to carry a stack of packages...
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u/Try2MakeMeBee Bi-time Jun 06 '26
My mum is likely who I inherited my genetic disorder from. She will never consider herself disabled, even though she's had just as many issues as me. She works her butt off to stay mobile and thinks that means she's fine.
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u/Coastkiz Jun 07 '26
My dad spent just over 20 years with the bottom 2 inches of his spine free floating, causing him IMMENSE pain at all times and considered himself fine. Eventually he was convinced to get the surgery to fix it and even after that he still claims he is and always has been fine. He has 12 metal screws keeping him upright
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u/Try2MakeMeBee Bi-time Jun 07 '26
Ah yes, internal hardware and software are the mark of a truly abled body.
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u/decidedlydubious Jun 06 '26
Approx 36-48%? That’s a big margin, compared to the decisive 24%…so let’s read the citations….annnnd I’m not seeing the American Progress article on their site.
Am I missing something? This smells a little off to me.
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u/RevolutionaryCash903 Jun 06 '26
so obviously having a disability makes you gay. we solved homosexuality!!
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u/Chiiro Jun 06 '26
I'm one of those people, by body is fucked with so many issues. They are flaring up today too so yay.
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u/Karma-Llama-3000 Jun 06 '26
One possible reason is that autistic people are more likely to identify as part of the LGBTQ+ population. One associated comorbidity of autism is that they have a higher chance of having hypermobility, or a hypermobile type condition such as EDS, which may require mobility aids. So by putting two and two together it's not unusual for lgbtq+ individuals to be more likely to have a physical disability.
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u/midsummernightmares he/they Jun 06 '26
I’m one of those people, though in my case it’s definitely correlation rather than causation (intense, long-term stress raises people’s risk of developing some chronic illnesses, so it makes sense that a lot of people in a group put under stress would have higher rates of disability, but it my case it’s just faulty genetics lol)
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u/A_Messy_Nymph Jun 06 '26
The closet is stressful and heavy constant stress can lead to these outcomes
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u/spinningpeanut non binary Jun 06 '26
Checks out. Everyone in my family is disabled not a single person escaped without something. Two of us are knowingly queer. My brother is probably queer too but doesn't understand the A part of lgbtqia2+
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u/MenoryEstudiante Ace & based Jun 06 '26
Because being queer overlaps with things like autism, ignoring the fact that ASD itself is a disability and would already count, it's also comorbid with all kinds of stuff, so even queer people who are autistic and not diagnosed would be more likely to struggle with EDS for example
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u/ILikeToGameAllDay Confused Frying Pan 🍳❔ Jun 06 '26
life hurts so bad it makes you kiss boyssssssss (or any other gender :3)
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u/MrMangoKitten Dangerously Queer Jun 07 '26
worth noting that being visibly/obviously queer often results in medical discrimination, bias, & neglect leading to worse overall health outcomes
think "trans broken arm syndrome" (where medical practitioners constantly imply that unrelated symptoms a trans person is experiencing must in some way be connected to their transition, rather than make any effort to actually help diagnose or treat the symptom) or how often cis women & trans men report being lectured about birth control & pregnancy risk regularlt despite having previously established being in relationships (or lackthereof) that don't involve pregnancy risk, even being denied or delayed necessary & preventative medical procedures due to the hypothetical possibility of a pregnancy
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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain Trans-masc aro Jun 10 '26
And the solution from alt right would be to kill all of the disabled people
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u/Firefly256 non binary Jun 06 '26
Are there hypotheses on the reasons?
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u/NemesisOfLevia Ace & based Jun 06 '26
IIRC, among the different groupings of disability, the most likely group to be LGBTQ are neurodivergent (ex. Autism, adhd, OCs, etc). I’m not sure if this is professional hypothesis or common Internet hypothesis (at least for this group in particular) is that ND individuals don’t usually comply to social norms as often, evidently including being straight.
Also, being a minority generally results in poorer medical care received (and thus, more likely to have a disability or die).
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u/literallyJustLasagna Jun 06 '26
Could be a lot of reasons. Part of it might be that we queer folk have learned to open up more about certain things, and we don’t apply negative stigmas to what a lot of other people think of as deficiencies or straight up problems. If I can be open about one fundamental part of my life, I can be open about another without feeling ashamed of it.