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actually i think we need to talk about how lonely and isolating it is to be young and chronically ill. of course being older and unwell is no picnic either, but there’s something about watching people around your own age live their lives as normal that stings. everyone i know my age is working, studying, exercising, travelling, going out for walks, for drinks, to dance or to see a film or buy groceries, making new friends and learning new things and trying new hobbies, just existing in public in a way that i am not able to do. i am stuck, here, feeling like i can’t grow up while everyone else around me gets to have these normal experiences. of course i know i am not the only disabled twentysomething on the planet, but the knowledge that most people my age are reaching milestones that are just beyond my reach makes me feel isolated, helpless, and ultimately, alone.

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You might be more than one. You might be different ones at different times. 🫶🏽🫶🏽 you might not be one of these. There are more roles 💪🏽 but this is an amazing intro.

You can’t just like the idea and envision yourself in one of these roles you have to figure out how to be about it ♥️🫶🏽

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Not so fun fact: my high schools policy for disabled fire evacuation was just to not

This needs to be talked about more, I’m sure my school wasn’t the only shitty one. We had no evac plans for our disabilities. We just had to stand next to the elevator and wait for help to come or for someone to call it drill and send us back, traumatised, to our classes.

When I moved to my college, they had to tell me what a personalised evacuation plan was. When we had a fire drill, my new teacher had to guide me out of the room as I shook in fear from the times we had sat upstairs on the third floor smelling smoke from a kitchen fire and not knowing how big that was or if someone was gonna come get us.

I was lucky, back then, that 2 sixteen year olds were in their last year, and had done this countless times before. They comforted me while I freaked out. That one was a drill. When there were fires, they were small and easily controlled, but when those came I was older, I comforted the younger students as we all stood there with the stench of burning filling our nostrils. Sometimes we’d move up the hall to the hallway balcony areas and lean over to see if the cafeteria was the culprit. We’d text friends outside asking for explanations, updates. Was it real, was it drill, where is the fire?

Sometimes I find myself beating myself up. Sometimes I say there was never any real threat, stop being dramatic.

But that’s not fair, no teenagers, no children, should have to spend a day every few months in fear waiting for a fire that might not be there. It’s cruel and it’s fucking lazy.

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