Zinnia86 wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
AprilR wrote:
I hate it SO f*****g much when people treat me like a genius just because i finished a prestigious uni. Do you expect a person with down syndrome to be a lawyer? No. Sometimes i so wish to have a permanent mark on my head that shows im disabled.
I dealt with the same biases about invisible disabilities, because of my education and my career. It was actually comforting to have a stroke and push a walker around for a year. People recognised THAT as a disability, but never my autism.
Maybe in a perfect world we will all get to wear shirts that state our difficulties and disabilities and how much progress we have made and all of the struggles we have overcome and what things we need right now to help us. People will look at us and just automatically get it and we won't have to explain every time and hope that they understand. That would be nice.
It was even more fun when I broke my foot and had a cast while also using the walker for my stroke! Validation! lol
Let me know when you find that perfect world, Zinnia.
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