I see in real time the perceptions and opinions of people change when they realise I am blind
To me, it is a part of who I am. It is not all of me, and it does not define me, but it is a part of me. It makes up my experiences, my perspective and gives me a unique understanding of how the world works.
It is trendy to be low maintenance or completely self sufficient – so what happens when you have a disability, but you also wish to be independent? Take me, for example; I live out of my family home and pretty much run my house myself and am working full time. On the rare occasion I need to ask my boyfriend to help me with something, it kills me.
How can I be so proud of something, but also so scared to fit the stereotype of the same thing? This is a question I do not have the answer to, despite all of the soul searching. While some of these may be true and there is nothing wrong with that, not everyone with a disability fits that mould. What about those of us who don’t consider their disability to be a superpower, but equally don’t view it negatively? We go about our days working and learning like the rest of you but we just do things differently.
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