From Mad in South Asia: Don’t wear this, Don’t walk that way, Don’t ask for help, Don’t look different, Don’t make people around us uncomfortable. Sometimes the barrier is not the disability, it is the instructions people impose on us in the name of being “normal.” My father wasn’t trying to hurt me; he was repeating what society had conditioned him to believe: that disability must be hidden, managed, adjusted, but never seen. But why should I be the one to shrink myself?
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