To my disabled peeps: The other day I was looking around the socials and I thought, “The disabled community is pretty damn cool”.

Collectively, we hold a diverse array of stories, hell-bent resilience, softness, power, stories to tell from our bellies, talents, style, humor and dreams—and though we all hold disability in common, our individual stories tree-branch into a variety of perspectives; further contextualizing the simple narrative the disabled community has unfairly been dealt.

Disabled people have been held down, hidden and dehumanized throughout human history just because we look, think, speak, see or move differently—and this is pretty sad; a smite on humanity who ignorantly thinks we’ve progressed so far, and yet we still hold all the same simplicities; viewing people as only one thing, prejudices, misinformed biases, and continued bondage to our innate positions of fear, superiority or exclusion against anything or anyone that is different.

We’ve had to experience this. We understand what this feels like.

All of this can be relieved by keeping an open mind; it’s the only way to ever proceed forward as a collaborative species. So when you see us, don’t skip over the disability-it’s a part of us-but there’s also a lot more if you take the time to learn.

I’m proud of my disabled community-proud of any community-who works to unburden the lines that disconnect us as humans. To disabled people, you’re a great catch, no matter what anyone says.❣️ I love you and think of you often.

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