I appreciate your writing about disability / chronic illness AND mixing it in with other stuff. Why not? It's life, after all. I don't think we should have to share everything like a new form of misery lit/inspiration porn, but the pandemic has produced newly disabled people in such vast numbers, I've decided to just treat my own disability (post viral) as a normal iteration of life. I wonder if our exclusion of the elderly from much cultural participation is also ablesim at work.
I appreciate your writing about disability / chronic illness AND mixing it in with other stuff. Why not? It's life, after all. I don't think we should have to share everything like a new form of misery lit/inspiration porn, but the pandemic has produced newly disabled people in such vast numbers, I've decided to just treat my own disability (post viral) as a normal iteration of life. I wonder if our exclusion of the elderly from much cultural participation is also ablesim at work.
thanks so much, I agree too, it is just part of, not my entire, existence. I agree for sure - ageism and ableism go hand in hand