This can present as hiding/ #masking #disability, fear of using #MobilityAids at all or in public, shame about taking medications, self-loathing, believing you and other disabled folk are actually "faking" or "lazy," and even lashing out at other disabled and #ChronicallyIll folk who are doing what they need to care for themselves or who are living their best lives. Or a million other things!

Dr. Martin Luther King said, "As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.” I feel like working through our #InternalizedAbleism is part of setting the mind free. It's an ongoing process, & no one ever truly arrives. I'm still working on it, for sure! I've been helped along in my journey by so many wonderful disabled people, & I'm so grateful. So, I'm paying it forward to my community by trying to be an example of a bold, proud, fearless, take-no-shit disabled human.