You don’t know any disabled people? Either you don’t know many people or they don’t feel safe enough to tell you
A guy came up to me saying: ‘You should know, for someone like you, you’re very attractive’: Living with disability
‘It’s given me the motivation to say, I’m not just a mam stuck at home with a disability who can’t do stuff’: Social enterprise Town Scientist Instead, let me try to tell you about the everyday stuff of having a physical disability. You know, the small things. Nine years ago I suffered a massive bleed in my brain during the surgery that was to cure me of my epilepsy, and as a result, the left side of my body isn’t fully functional any more. My disability is now very obvious as I wear a leg brace, walk with a stick and have an arm that’s there pretty much just for show.
I’ve learned that I’m now “people like you”, and somehow, that’s rarely followed by something positive. Even if it sounds positive, it’s so ableist that you wonder how people come up with it. Like the time this woman told me: “It’s so great to see people like you still going shopping for clothes.” Or the guy who came up to me at the airport and, very confidently, said: “You should know, for someone like you, you’re very attractive.
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