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Growing Up Feeling Like “Too Much”
While talking to my uncle yesterday morning, I was trying to find the right words to describe why living in my own apartment is so important to me. When you have a disability you often already feel limited in many ways and like you are a burden. What I didn’t say to him was how…
Curing What, Exactly?
Whenever I see people insist that a disabled person just needs to be “cured,” I feel a pang of frustration. It happened again recently on social media when someone commented on a mother’s Instagram post that independence “begins with getting him cured.” Amanda Griffith‑Atkins responded with a question: “And how does one cure a genetic…
The Lives We Overlook
CW: Ableism & Eugenics When Fatima Muhammad is out with her son Alameen, who has Down syndrome, she has to endure stares, whispers, and rude comments. She says Alameen’s biggest challenge is not his Down syndrome − it is the way society interacts with him. Disability is not viewed with compassion and acceptance, and Fatima…
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