broadwaybabyto, “Have you tried just doing X? Surely if you were that sick you would have help. Maybe you just haven’t tried hard enough.”
How often have disabled & chronically ill people heard statements like that? I wrote about the gaslighting many disabled people experience - and how you can cope with it, set boundaries & find your tribe: https://open.substack.com/pub/disabledginger/p/gaslightingforthenewlydisabled?r=19dk2e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#disability #chronicillness #spoonies #DisabilityJustice #Advocacy #LongCovid #CovidisNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #Ableism #gaslighting