Many people take their health for granted. They look at those of us with disabilities & think they’re better than us. We deserved it. We want to be sick. We’re not trying hard enough.
They believe they will be the exception, and that belief drives them to take risks 🧵
They believe they will be the exception, and that belief drives them to take risks 🧵
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I heard a good quote on this other day.
"Good health is a crown the healthy wear that only those who don't have good health can see"
They want to believe that if they do everything “right”, bad things won’t happen to them. They won’t become sick, homeless, impoverished, disabled /2
We didn’t think to ourselves “boy it would be fun to lose all our money, dignity & autonomy and spend our lives in pain and suffering” /3
Maybe it was a virus. Maybe it was an accident. Maybe it was a medical error or genetics. Maybe you were born this way.
Whatever the reason, there was no fault involved. /4
They label us expendable. /5
They don’t want to think about the fact that there are conditions that will ruin your quality of life but not kill you /6
They have to cling to the belief that it’ll never happen to them, and IF it does, they will be able to “fix it” /7