Being a part-time wheelchair user at 21 years old isn’t how I envisioned my life at this point. These are the cards I’ve been dealt with and I try my best to take everything in my stride. When I’m around my family and friends, the reality of having a chronic illness isn’t at the forefront of my head. When I’m in public, this does change sometimes.

I get quite anxious/ nervous about being seen out of the house because of the response I get. I think it’s because it isn’t typically ‘normal’ to see a young woman being pushed in a wheelchair. I get asked questions like: “Why are you in a wheelchair” “Aren’t you too young to be in a wheelchair” “You don’t look I’ll enough to be in that”

In these situations, I’m learning to understand it’s not a reflection on me BUT… It’s a reflection on how the other person perceives disability and their understanding of it. That’s why I made this account.

Before all of this, I was healthy, active and had nothing else medically wrong with me. I want to show that disability and chronic illness can creep up and happen to anyone. This isn’t to scare people. I show the realities of living with chronic illness and the effect it can have. 

My hope is to make the stranger in the street think twice about questioning whether or not “I’m disabled enough” for their standards. All I can do now is carry on with accepting who I am with having a disability. No matter how anxious I get, I can’t let a stranger's perception of me control whether or not I leave the house 💖



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