Marco Rogers
So one of the things that is important about social media is that you can use it to really broaden your exposure to lived experiences out side of your own.
One of the many reasons this is important is because sometimes your life changes. And those lived experiences that used to seem far away from you suddenly become your own actual life.
For me, this was hearing people talk about disability.
Marco Rogers
The more important lesson for me was understanding that many of us won't understand what's happening to us when it does. Americans especially have weird traumas around health. Because our system makes being unhealthy incredibly expensive. And our culture often stigmatizes people for being anything other than fully able-bodied. This often results in people being in denial when their health starts to deteriorate. And it's worse when it starts to threaten their livelihood.
Marco Rogers
I used to be a person who didn't have many thoughts about disability. Like many relatively healthy and able-bodied people, I had a narrow view of disability. When I heard the word, I thought about people who's disabilities were very debilitating and very visible.
But as I started to listen more, I got introduced to the understanding that disability is a very wide spectrum. And we may all find ourselves there at some point in our lives.
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