Disability can be so lonely. I try to socialize, but it becomes super apparent how different I am. How different my life is (a thread) #personal #Disabled #Disability #Ableism #Isolation #CovidCautious #CovidConscious #HalfVent #ChronicIllness #ChronicallyIll - ThreadSky

spaceyrose.bsky.social • 83 days ago

Disability can be so lonely. I try to socialize, but it becomes super apparent how different I am. How different my life is (a thread)
#personal #Disabled #Disability #Ableism #Isolation #CovidCautious #CovidConscious #HalfVent #ChronicIllness #ChronicallyIll

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corithna.bsky.social•83 days ago

Our differences are what we should celebrate. If we were all exactly the same it would get awfully confusing. "hey are you john? no, are you...no, are you...no......."

Of course our identity is just part of that equation. Variety is the spice of life after all.

spaceyrose.bsky.social•83 days ago

I go to my friends homes and their families ask me about school. Driving. Work. Things everyone else my age do but I just don't. I can't. I stand out at every event b/c I'm always the only one masked. They're so kind and they ask it so innocently and I think that makes it hurt more.

spaceyrose.bsky.social•83 days ago

I also feel like there's some questions I'm just not allowed to answer honestly. No one, and I mean no one, wants to hear about my day. And that really disrupts your ability to connect with other people. It feels like I spend my whole life listening to other people and no one knows a thing about me

spaceyrose.bsky.social•83 days ago

Most of my "friends" don't even really feel like friends. Not since I got "too sick" for most people. It cracks me up whenever I encounter someone who assumes I just get showered in attention 24/7 for being sick b/c in all honesty no one cares. People care less about me now than they did before.

spaceyrose.bsky.social•83 days ago

The worst part is being accused of being self obsessed and "making everything about me" for wanting someone to care. Says it all, really. It's human to want to be understood, unless you're disabled. Then it's selfish. B/c to know you is to be burdened by you. Least, according to society

spaceyrose.bsky.social•83 days ago

I don't think that though. I've met many wonderful disabled people, and the light they brought into my life was not diminished by their illness. Disabled people are worth knowing. We are worth understanding. We are people too. And I will never not appreciate the beauty of my disabled friendships.

ok-fine-fu-xhitter.bsky.social•83 days ago

Thank you for sharing this.

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