When I was younger I used to shrug off the thought that the world just wasn’t made for someone like me. But in the last few weeks this thought has been at the forefront of my mind. Not in a wholly negative sense either, more that I’ve given the idea space and credence. I have been swept up by the Social Model of Disability. The idea that a person is only as disabled as society makes them, that physical barriers combined with discriminatory attitudes result in unnecessary isolation and exclusion from full participation in society.*
Following a steady breadcrumb trail of likes and retweets I discovered this ideology in early autumn, and it has since led me to re evaluate and analyse my own life experience, and the experience of others like me.
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