Whatâs changed?
We stopped ignoring people. Thatâs what changed.
Autistic people didnât suddenly appearâthey were misdiagnosed, institutionalized, or dismissed as âweirdâ or âdifficult.â Gender-diverse people didnât just materializeâthey were closeted, shamed, or erased. People with celiac disease or food allergies werenât âtougherâ in your dayâthey were just sick, undiagnosed, and told to suffer in silence. And as for vegans? Thatâs just people making conscious ethical or dietary choicesâsomething you clearly find threatening for reasons that say more about you than them.
Youâre not highlighting a societal collapse. Youâre advertising the era of medical neglect, social repression, and anti-intellectualism you came from.
Whatâs changed is that weâre listening nowâto science, to data, and to the people your generation silenced.
And judging by this tweet, youâre still not ready to.