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“Mainstream ideas of “healingâ€� deeply believe in ableist ideas that you’re either sick or well, fixed or broken, and that nobody would want to be in a disabled or sick or mad bodymind. Unsurprisingly and unfortunately, these ableist ideas often carry over into healing spaces that call themselves “alternativeâ€� or “liberatory.â€� The healing may be acupuncture and herbs, not pills and surgery, but assumptions in both places abound that disabled and sick folks are sad people longing to be “normal,â€� that cure is always the goal, and that disabled people are objects who have no knowledge of our bodies. And deep in both the medical-industrial complex and “alternativeâ€� forms of healing that have not confronted their ableism is the idea that disabled people can’t be healers.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice