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Choices

My Lovelies, I have an opinion about this. That shouldn't shock you if you've been paying attention. Number 1, the comment is indeed tremendously stupid. Hand controls are a perfectly safe, viable option to help us in this community navigate  life in a world not meant for us. What should be more shocking is that so many of us fight so hard just to be part of the world that clearly wishes we'd just stay inside. And then there are those, like myself, who have  "thought of others' safety" and chosen, like me, not to get behind any wheels in this world. I have very limited peripheral vision, and sometimes just the cars coming up behind me or things happening just out of sight on the road absolutely terrify me. I wouldn't be able to process and react quickly enough for my own safety and that of others. Which really adds another layer to this commenter's stupidity altogether. The fact that they don't assume we've put any thought into our decision to ...
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FYI

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Molly Burke

We have so much in common! This girl is navigating a world not erected with even a thought toward her needs-- I'm familiar. So the struggle becomes overcompensation for our "shortcomings." My balance struggles are moment to moment. Either my muscles are too stiff or they're too loose. Either I'm walking with all the grace of a marionette without my walker, or I'm losing control of said muscles and falling. Possibly crashing into a wall. So surprise, I swear a lot. Just because we have  a disability doesn't mean we like  the challenges it brings. Just because I could  say "fluffernutter!" or "son of a mother!" in response to some fresh screw over by the universe-- doesn't mean I'm gonna. It's much more satisfying to fill my imaginary swear jar with imaginary quarters for all the f-bombs and SOBs that have elegantly fallen from my lips. The thing I love is that Burke finally put into words what I would have loved to be the fir...
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Olympic Joy

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What Radicalized You?

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Aliya's Story

I've seen the picture of Aliya being carried away. Carried. Violently. It has come to this. As human beings, we don't  owe you our diagnoses. We don't  owe you an explanation. We do not  owe you our time and patience and understanding as we communicate in words you understand why certain things that come easily to you are not easy for us. If someone with Autism or a TBI was lying , what would it benefit them? They might have to go through a battery of unnecessary tests to prove competency, or humiliating mobility procedures. This woman said she used a cane. What more  did the arresting officers need? An arbitrary number of training days is ludicrous. Let me just say it here. If I were to walk up to Mr. 47-Days Training with my right-turned eye and walker and claim CP and a brain injury would he ask me to prove it?! And yet it has come to this. We have to say it. We  have to be further humiliated. We have to be more vulnerable in public. We  have to give our...
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Judgement Day

 Hello Lovelies!     I encounter this all  the time. The first thing to catch a stranger's attention is usually my walker or my inward-turning eye. This leads to the completely ludicrous assumption that I must be very stupid. As if the failure to meet the physical standards of beauty disqualifies me from intelligence.  And nobody ever says a word. This is just the way things are. Well. While human rights and equality are at the forefront of the collective consciousness at the moment, perhaps society should re-examine how the least physically able among them are being judged. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AXn4mNpmZ/
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