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8:15pm August 18, 2014

bittersnurr:

tbh the only real thing that got better for me switching from invisibly disabled to visibly disabled is I think I am disabled now

it hasn’t really effected anyone else’s opinions except maybe people who don’t ever see me stand up from the chair but HEY I FEEL BETTER

but that doesn’t work with mental illness because it’s not visible so even though I am TOTALLY DISABLED I still think I am lying about having any brain things wrong even with official papers that agree.

you are overexaggerating you are appropriating something probably liar liar

I’m having a very weird transition in the opposite direction.  I’m less visible physically disabled, but probably (if my experience in the past is any indication) far more visibly cognitively disabled.  It’s a strange tradeoff.  

I keep expecting chair users to recognize me as ‘one of them’ and then realize they have no way of knowing that I spent over a decade in wheelchairs.

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  3. slashmarks said: yeah I’m pretty much the same way except I am only using a cane that I can TECHNICALLY do without so my brain says that I am making up the knee pain too (because I guess I enjoy having knee pain?)
  4. familiaralien said: =n= well that’s… not great but okay at least. Sometimes I want to just get a cane less because my feet fuck up when I walk long distance and more for people more afraid than I am when I start limping around because my foot was like “lol nope”.
  5. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from bittersnurr and added:
    I’m having a very weird transition in the opposite direction. I’m less visible physically disabled, but probably (if my...
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