Joscelyn Transpiring on Nostr: I’ve posted recently about my own struggles trying to navigate this kind of thing ...
I’ve posted recently about my own struggles trying to navigate this kind of thing how to accept that I am, to some extent, significantly disabled. There are complicated feelings entangled in this and fear for what it could mean.
A framing that helps me is remembering the term is a verb - we are disabled by structures and a world that either is negligent to us or actively pushes us to the margins of consideration. Using a wheelchair is not a disability, but every time a place is only accessible by stairs actively disables them from participating in the place and what happens there.
Years ago now, I had to learn to accept what it meant to live with depression and the ways it can disable me. But I could still be productive in the ways usually expected of me. When my ADHD got worse and I moved into a workplace actively hostile to it, I found myself newly disabled and they burned me out to dysfunction across my life. This has left a deficit in capacity since
A framing that helps me is remembering the term is a verb - we are disabled by structures and a world that either is negligent to us or actively pushes us to the margins of consideration. Using a wheelchair is not a disability, but every time a place is only accessible by stairs actively disables them from participating in the place and what happens there.
Years ago now, I had to learn to accept what it meant to live with depression and the ways it can disable me. But I could still be productive in the ways usually expected of me. When my ADHD got worse and I moved into a workplace actively hostile to it, I found myself newly disabled and they burned me out to dysfunction across my life. This has left a deficit in capacity since