{"id":280218,"date":"2025-12-03T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=280218"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:07:15","slug":"today-we-are-all-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/today-we-are-all-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"We are all disabled today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know Mahsun K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131g\u00fcl's song...<br \/>\n\u201cWe are all brothers, why this anger,<br \/>\nWhy fight when you can live...\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brotherhood, justice, law, equality...<br \/>\nWhat about conscience?<br \/>\nToday is the day to look in the mirror of that conscience.<br \/>\nToday is World Disability Day.<br \/>\nAnd I say today:<br \/>\nWe are all disabled!<\/p>\n<p>I know this sentence will be heavy for some people.<br \/>\n\u201cMaybe they will say, \u201dYou are the disabled one\".<br \/>\nYes, maybe I am the physically disabled one.<br \/>\nBut the real obstacle;<br \/>\nIn the eye that does not see pain,<br \/>\nIn the deaf ear,<br \/>\nIt is the conscience that does not understand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-280219\" src=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/aa40be50-36b4-4dd2-b90f-2d24350b088b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/aa40be50-36b4-4dd2-b90f-2d24350b088b.jpg 509w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/aa40be50-36b4-4dd2-b90f-2d24350b088b-300x424.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can dress up a day as \u201cawareness\u201d,<br \/>\nI am talking about an understanding that buried 364 days in darkness.<br \/>\nBy fitting the problems of people with disabilities into one day,<br \/>\nThe next day, occupying the sidewalks again,<br \/>\nLocking the elevators again,<br \/>\nThis is a system that puts barriers instead of ramps.<\/p>\n<p>Awareness does not fit in one day!<br \/>\nEmpathy cannot be written on an agenda!<\/p>\n<p>At home<br \/>\nOn the street<br \/>\nIn the market<br \/>\nIn front of the television<br \/>\nWhoever can pick up the remote,<br \/>\nBut there are some who can't hold a remote control.<br \/>\nAnyone can look at the screen,<br \/>\nBut there are others who see the world through darkness.<br \/>\nMost of the time we are looking...<br \/>\nBut we don't see it.<\/p>\n<p>I am talking about the mentality that gives flowers today for the day of the disabled and parks them on the sidewalk tomorrow. I am talking about the understanding that gives a stage today and does not give a job tomorrow. I am talking about the conscience that shares today and does not even say hello tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>As long as we talk about the problems of people with disabilities only \u201ctoday\u201d, the real obstacle will continue to grow within us.<\/p>\n<p>Disability is not only in the body.<br \/>\nThe main obstacle;<br \/>\nIt is the paralysis of compassion.<br \/>\nIt is the lameness of justice.<br \/>\nIt is the blinding of equality.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am starting a trend:<br \/>\n1TP5We are all disabled<\/p>\n<p>Until disabled people are not at the bottom of society,<br \/>\nUntil he settles in his most honorable place...<br \/>\nUntil their rights are not a handout,<br \/>\nUntil it is delivered as a human right.<br \/>\nAs long as representation is not for show,<br \/>\nUntil it's real...<\/p>\n<p>Until some of us accept that we are physically disabled,<br \/>\nUntil some of us realized we were mentally disabled,<br \/>\nUntil we learn to empathize.<\/p>\n<p>Yes,<br \/>\nToday we are all disabled.<br \/>\nBecause even one day is enough for us,<br \/>\nWe are the real obstacle!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as we only talk about the problems of people with disabilities \u201ctoday\u201d, the real obstacle will continue to grow within us.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":280220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-280218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280222,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280218\/revisions\/280222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}