9:27am September 17, 2013

“Situations like falling on my dorm room floor scare me not only because they are frightening and uncomfortable at face value, but also because I live in a world where people see my right to autonomy as different simply because I am disabled. I am afraid of situations where I look anything less than totally together and capable because from the time I was four years old and I had to be observed, so that people who didn’t even know me could decide whether I was able to go to mainstream kindergarten. I have spent my whole life having to prove that I should have the same rights and opportunities as everybody else. I have this overpowering need not to admit when I need help because I am afraid that I will lose everything I’ve worked so hard for.”

Needing Help and the Perception of Competence (via thisiswhatkarinthinks)

Reblogging because I find this resonates with me in ways I’m not sure how to articulate yet. 

(via andreashettle)

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