Hopefully I don’t start a struggle session with this, but it’s a big reason I went vegan. I’ve always had a lot of empathy for animals. One of the main things that made veganism “click” for me was that the same justifications used for killing and torturing animals for pleasure - that they don’t have the same abilities as humans and that makes them beneath moral consideration - is the same justification given for all of the horrible things “normal” society does to disabled and neurodiverse people.