@sarahtoddhammer: We need to start prioritizing empathy over selfishness. [Video Description: ST, a young white woman with long blonde hair, is speaking on screen. Text on screen at the beginning of the video reads “‘I don’t owe anyone anything!’ We do, in fact, owe people something.”] #DisabilityTikTok #DisabilityAwareness
“I don’t owe anyone anything” freed me from unrealistic/inappropriate demands. I’m shocked by how people have interpreted it so coldly
2025-01-09 17:15:18
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tikicat :
Yes! I broke my ankle a few years ago and had roommates tell me to “hire a task rabbit” to shovel/ice the sidewalk… this was only a temporary physical disability. Safe to say we aren’t friends anymore
2025-01-09 17:06:51
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MARLON RECOMO :
hillo mam
2025-03-11 03:33:13
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Mavis :
No, you dont OWE anyone anything, but that shouldn’t stop you from being a good person?? Like it doesn’t take anything away from your life to help another person
2025-01-09 17:58:27
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danajaerubin :
I firmly believe we don’t owe anyone anything unless there is a contract of sorts. That belief has stopped me from become resentful of others and building friendships with people that WANT to help me
2025-01-09 17:24:41
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Royito :
This perspective really puts it into simple terms!
2025-03-25 21:59:25
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Precious Tapewormz :
One of my randomly matched roomates was disabled and I was very happy to help them throughout the day it really isn’t an inconvenience
2025-01-09 17:16:19
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Cryinginacoolway🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️🌈 :
I'm bedbound and all I ask my housemates to do is bring my mail upstairs. Today I paid for a cleaner to deep clean a communal space and the housemates COMPLAINED ABOUT THE INCONVENIENCE. It's unreal
2025-01-09 18:28:33
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Chronic ✡️ :
I fell down the stairs in the subway station not long ago. my friends helped me until the ambulance arrived, toom my stuff back to my dorm for me, and came to bring me food and hang out with me in the hospital. I'm alright now, it was just a really bad sprain I couldn't put weight on, but it would have been so much worse if I couldn't rely on friends for help. we're social creatures, we survive because we care for each other
2025-01-09 19:07:36
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Nina :
People act like “you don’t owe them” givse them a free pass to be a bad friend/person
2025-01-09 18:34:19
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rylan :
i feel like it’s one of those things that started with good intentions but quickly veered away. like a “don’t sacrifice too much of yourself just to please others” but now it’s like people don’t think
2025-01-09 19:08:09
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None :
I absolutely love your videos! I used to volunteer at my old university’s accessibly club. Can you talk about accessibility during harsh weather like snow/hail/rain etc?
2025-01-09 17:16:47
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Marina🍉 :
I literally don’t mind helping people in public, disabled or not. I’m tall, so I’m regularly asked to reach stuff on high shelves and I simply don’t mind helping
2025-01-09 17:59:57
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Natali :
You don't "owe" anyone anything, but if you love them or even just care about them, you should do stuff to show it. And you can be kind just for the sake of it.
2025-01-09 18:04:56
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Aggie| House Plants 🪴🌿 :
St I know they don’t OWE you anything. But that’s what friends are for. And that’s what being a human being is. Being helpful and kind and caring for others.
2025-01-09 17:25:36
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kassidy💫 :
Ik I dont owe anybody anything but I dont want to live in a world where nobody helps each other only bc they can. I dont want to only help other bc I owe them, I want to help them out of kindness
2025-01-10 02:18:57
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Ade :
Capitalism has really brainwashed us to believe that anything can and should be done by yourself or you should pay someone to do it
2025-01-09 19:59:31
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🎗️Rachel ✡️•books&politics :
Tbh, I’m super independent but I love being helpful. I honestly like helping other people out, BUT I struggle with asking for help. 😅
2025-01-09 18:14:12
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🤣 :
I’ve never been disabled and honestly never thought about it. Recently broke my right hand and it made me so aware of how it must feel to be in a differently abled body. We really HAVE to be better:
2025-01-10 02:36:23
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claire ☁️ :
a month or two info my freshman year of college i had a horrible migraine like the worst ever, her and the ra literally guided me to the bathroom because i needed to go but couldn’t open my eyes
2025-01-10 16:14:20
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WarhorseDesignCo :
I feel like at the start of that attitude, it was meant to free and protect people from those that take advantage, but somewhere it turned into being a self centered Jackwagon.
2025-01-09 22:49:56
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𓆩🕸️𓆪 M․K․ 𓆩🕸️𓆪 :
“Oh there’s a tool for that” yeah but like Roomate is there. Tool is… where did I put tool… hey Roomate! R u busy?
2025-01-11 16:25:29
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Emma :
Me and my roomates are able bodied and we ask each other for help (as well as just random people who live on our floor) constantly! Everyone does
2025-01-10 15:16:16
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