Among my networks of chronically ill and disabled folx, one of the most frequently-mentioned problems is loneliness and isolation. We've been left behind by people we trusted because we didn't perform "normal". (I stopped missing them.) Let's say it loud: We don't owe anyone our wellbeing.
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Kelly
For more on family abandonment & the various ways we are punished for being disabled … I wrote about one of my most heartbreaking experiences
I was excluded from a Zoom Christmas because I couldn’t “hide” my disabilities well enough & the others deserved joy
What do we deserve? Nothing apparently
I was excluded from a Zoom Christmas because I couldn’t “hide” my disabilities well enough & the others deserved joy
What do we deserve? Nothing apparently
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