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caffeinatedopossum · 3 months ago

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Conversation I just had with the person scheduling my therapy (it's at a place that offers disability services so they were asking about that):

Person: oh you're disabled? Were you in a car accident or something?

Me: ah, no, I have a genetic condition that makes my skeleton fall apart

Person: oh geez okay. Do you have to use any mobility aids? Like can you walk?

Me: uhh?? Sometimes? I can walk but not reliably. I can't do anything reliably which is like the whole problem because people don't think of disabilities as being so variable.

Person: wow I don't even think I'd be able to get out of bed, not knowing wether I'd be able to walk or not that day...

Me: oh well I have this pro gamer strategy where laying in bed hurts more the longer I lay there so eventually it will get so painful that I HAVE to get up haha 🙃

#why does my disability have to be so GOSH DANG MULTI FACETED #im TIRED. im OVERWHELMED #why cant it just be simple #simplifying things for strangers is so hard with my autism #like when asked any question my instinct is to answer it completely and exhaustively...#something that severly overwhelms me #i have to have pre-prepared simplified answers for everything but I dont know who i can afford to simplify to and who i cant #like for instance. a stranger doesnt need to know shit about my disability #hell i could lie about it to make it more believable/understandable even and no harm done #but my doctors? thats different. same with case workers- theyre gonna need to know everything with no under exaggerations #and then theres receptionists- what do i tell them? like theyre somewhere in between doctor and stranger #because while they themselves dont really need to know they are typing out an essay about my life that will be shown to the doctor #and may end up essentially copy pasted into my permanent file #idk its just a lot that i always have to think about

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