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rushthatspeaks ([personal profile] rushthatspeaks) wrote in [personal profile] truelove 2018-07-02 07:24 am (UTC)

Possibly? I'm approaching this from the other end, in that I came out in various directions ~ten years before I started the process of admitting to myself and others that I am disabled and need to address that in my life. It... I was going to say it hasn't helped much, but now that I think about it, that's wrong. I am used to the idea that other people being assholes about something has no bearing on the validity or existence of that thing, which is better than it could be. What it hasn't helped one bit with is the internalized shame, and the holding of myself to different standards than the rest of the world ('other people legitimately need accommodations; I must be shirking'). But it's true, now you mention it, that there's a whole chunk of things about finding myself having a different experience from the presumed majority that it does affect.

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