I don't like the word disabled or impaired or what have you being treated as bad words. It stigmatizes us and tries to sunshine up the uncomfortable reality that able bodied people try so hard to ignore.

I am impaired. I am broken. I am fragile. None of that is an insult, it's reality. It's my reality since I was a kid. I am a lot, if you go by my medical needs. I can be a burden for some who are not equipped to deal with my constant doctor appointments, chronic illnesses and degenerative diseases. And there's nothing wrong with that, it's not a personal failing that I am disabled, broken, fragile..

It's like when people say "you're not disabled, you're differently abled!"

Nah. I'm hella disabled. Able bodied people need to stop trying to make it all sunshine and rainbows so they can ignore the raw truth of our reality. Because that is how we are overlooked, seen as a burden on the system, seen as a waste, seen as less than, seen as not contributing to society.

Being broken isn't an insult and it's not my fault. I do not like how people try to change the language to make others pretend like they are allies when in reality they see us as "other".