stigma
No more excuses. I'm confident in my decision.
Symptoms are not a barrier to recovery -- but our attitudes are.
Just because someone looks good today doesn’t mean they look good every day.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
"As a culture, Dominican people just don’t discuss [mental illness]."
Everyone seems to think blood sugar calculations are effortless. You do it every day. You've done it a million times. But it's not effortless. You start all over every day. Always guessing.
To me, it feels like the opposite of acceptance to have my entire identity as a person with a physical disability reduced to an isolated simulation experience. We must move away from equating empathy with acceptance