Invisible Disabilities
I ‘don’t look sick’. I look ‘normal’ but I’m disabled. Both by my own definition and by the government’s:
‘A physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.’
I am not always open about it. There are people in my life [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘disability’
May 1, 2009
Blogging against disablism – Invisible disabilities
April 28, 2009
Blogging Against Disablism Day
Blogging against disablism Day
Excellent idea, I shall be blogging. If i remember. I’m trying to formulate thoughts on the whole ‘but you don’t *look* disabled’ issue and the joys of living with such fluctating illnesses and flitting between being ‘normal’ and the wondeful world of chronic illness and the added stigma of mental illness [...]
