This is the final week of Disability Pride month so I thought I’d close out the month with a second BINGO card on Disability Faux Pas BINGO. It is always more fun to play with two cards and to see who gets to BINGO first, or in this case loses cause they fill their card with faux pas.

Special thanks to Carrie and G.B.N. for helping with this BINGO card. They provided so much good material last week I had enough to make a second BINGO board. They’ve both taught me a lot about disabilities and disability justice over the years.

Since the graphic isn’t screen reader friendly, the text of the BINGO card is below. Please make sure to see last week’s BINGO card too. If you’re wondering about why some of these phrases are on the BINGO card poke around on the blog for past blog posts about disability. The more we learn the less we’ll trip up.

BINGO Board

Overshares with disabled people

Says they will ‘pray’ for a disabled person

Is surprised to learn a disabled person is a parent

Is even more surprised to learn a disabled person is their boss

Segregates disabled people, e.g. they belong in Special Education classrooms

Complains about how long it takes for a bus to load a wheelchair

Asks a disabled person “What’s wrong with you?”

Not being direct in asking about a disability

Excluding people with disabilities from decisions that impact them

Compalings about captioning blocking the screen

Only talk about disabilities with people with disabilities

Calls people with disability ‘brave’

Calls caregivers ‘selfless’

Blames bad events on mental illness – “The shooter must be mentally ill.”

Thinks people with non-visual disabilities are ‘faking it’

Will only hire people with disabilities for entry level jobs

Dismisses accessibility requests as ‘asking for too much’ or ‘inconvenient’

Disaster plans do not take into account disabled people

Believes willpower can override a disability: “They can XXX if they try hard enough.”

Labels people with disabilities as uncooperative

Calls in sick or books a meeting during the anti-ableism training

Believes they can diagnosis disabilities with what they learned on Instagram and TikTok

A few more book recs to help you learn more

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More

For a bit of fun and not to learn about disability, but for a middle grade novel where disabilities are intertwined in a story but not the central part Sal & Gabi Break the Universe. I share this title because we should expose young readers to disabled characters, especially where their disability is not the main focus.

Here is a picture book about the history of the American with Disabilities Act: All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything.

More titles on the Fakequity Bookshop page. I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org where your purchases support local bookstores. I earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. The commission goes into purchasing books by POC authors or about disabilities to donate to high-poverty public schools.

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