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What 27 Means This Year
CW: Death Today is my 27th birthday. The past year has been challenging. It’s been nearly a year since my former paraprofessional passed away. It’s difficult knowing that I won’t hear from her today, especially because a year ago today I received the last message I would ever get from her. While I am filled…
Twenty‑Five Years Later, Disability Remains One of 9/11’s Most Human Truths
CW: Terrorist Attacks, Death, & Illness Twenty-five years after 9/11, the day still feels strangely quiet, calm before the memorials start, before the names are read, before the country begins its yearly remembrance. The narrative is still the same: heroism, shock, national unity. But disability is part of the story that hasn’t been fully told,…
The Quiet Support vs. the Loud Suspicion
CW: Ableism Public attitudes toward disability are largely shaped by a mix of empathy, suspicion, and cultural storytelling. The newest British Social Attitudes survey shows nearly half of people supporting higher disability benefits, even if taxes rise to fund them. That quiet support matters, but it exists alongside louder narratives that divide disabled people into…
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