Why Not All Disabled People Want to Be Seen As ‘An Inspiration’

For seventeen years of my life I was "lazy", "clumsy", "slothful" and a "neurotic hypochondriac". I was the child teachers rolled their eyes at. "What’s wrong now?" was the most common response to me raising my hand. I was probably deeply annoying.

Then I was diagnosed with a genetic disability.

Suddenly, I was "inspirational".

How had I managed to get out of bed? They marvelled. How brave, how amazing, how… inspiring!

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