Living with a lower limb disability is an adventure. Everybody appreciates that. But the public understanding of what it's like to live disabled is lacking in a few areas- take it from someone who had to get hit by a train to learn how wrong she was about disability. Here are 11 things that, much like the train, I didn't see coming.
Senior year. I had a mohawk, but the school made be grow it out, so that's the weird cockatoo thing on my head. Worst part was, I had kind of a highly-publicized accident not long after, and this was the picture they used on the national news. (Note the ABC watermark.) So, yup. Everyone…Â
I was... 13, maybe 14 years old? I can't tell you what's worse- the eyebrows, the popped collar + Pink Floyd hoodie, the haircut, the sticker on my face, the earrings or the pose. I had a long ugly-duckling phase.
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