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Always Disabled: Navigating Grief over a Lost Childhood
“I feel like I’ve lost my childhood to my disability.” I’ve read this haunting sentence multiple times on social media. I’ve also heard it from…
  This is a picture of the outfit that I wore to my most recent doctor’s appointment. My thoughts in choosing this were that…
Across the internet, disabled people are reclaiming popular characters as their own. TikTok trends with captions like, “Characters that are autistic because I (an…
As a disabled teenager, I do not get the luxury of chocolate-covered strawberries or dozens of roses in a fancy little vase. I do…
It has taken me months to try and write this piece. It has sat in my to do list since August, “Write cripple anger…
A study led by Harvard professor of medicine, Dr. Iezzoni, published in Health Affairs in 2021 determined that out of 714 practising US physicians,…
I lived for 15 years without having a clue about my autism. It was only after a series of life-threatening mental health crises- and…
Halloween is just around the corner, and despite the CoronaVirus pandemic, many people are still planning their costumes for a variety of activities. Personally,…
During the 1960s, people with mental illness were reintegrated into society, following mass deinstitutionalization efforts of the United States government, rendering state-funded mental hospitals…
Image illustrated by Staff Artist, Damaris Contreras. CW: medical trauma, graphic descriptions of injury The crack of the plaster fills the tiny doctor’s room,…