The ableist from yesterday

I was at Safeway. I was casually waiting in line for my turn. When some idiot cashier says “Its okay to put your stuff down now!” I was floored. Did she assume I’m disabled and therefore efin incompetent? How fucked up is that? I waited a fraction of a second to decide how to respond. She was chubby. I’m 101 pounds. Chubby types tend to throw themselves around a lot anyway. So I reacted “Don’t talk to me like that!” I waited more time before I put my hash browns onto the conveyor belt. Well, fucking A. I put her in her place so fast she had no idea what hit her. On a side note, my aunt decided to throw abuse in my direction and I pointed it out to her. She called my diabetes a horrible illness. I corrected her by saying “It’s not horrible, don’t say that.” How crazy is that? The woman can hardly stand up for herself anymore than my mother stands up for herself. Both know how to be abusive but not how to be assertive. Somebody suggested I hold assertiveness training classes. I would have to read some books on how to be more assertive before I do that.