10/11/2025
Inclusion matters.💫
Robbie Crow Shares : wears more faces than most people realise or see.
It can be a wheelchair user meeting a flight of stairs where a ramp or lift should be.
It can be a blind person shut out of a website because nobody thought to make it accessible.
It can be a colleague fighting to stay focused while the office hums too loud for them to hear clearly.
It can be a person smiling through pain because the chairs around the meeting table are built for comfort that lasts ten minutes, not an hour.
It can be someone who spends the day masking, performing “normal”, so they don’t get labelled difficult, and goes home exhausted from the effort.
It can be a commuter checking every route for seats because standing too long makes their joints flare.
It can be someone who skips an event because there is no quiet spot to pause and breathe.
Disability can be all of this as well as so much more.
The social model shows us that people aren’t primarily by their conditions, bodies or minds alone - they’re disabled by the barriers we build into spaces, systems and attitudes.
When we choose ramps, captions, quiet rooms, flexible processes and respectful language, we remove those barriers.
isn’t about special treatment. It’s about designing a world where everyone can belong, whether or not you can see what they need.
ID: a Robbie Crow purple quote graphic featuring an orange outline and quotation mark. Inside the box, white text reads: “Inclusion isn’t about special treatment. It’s about designing a world where everyone can belong, whether or not you can see what they need." At the bottom, there’s a circle with the text "Progress Over Perfection" and small colorful icons of disabled people. Wavy lines in rainbow colors run horizontally across the bottom. In the lower left corner, it says © Robbie Crow (2025).
