Here are their responses!
@shanicefern : Shanice, 25
After I got a cochlear implant everyone was like “ Oh, you’ll be fine now!”
“But, getting a device is just the first step. Then going through years of therapy, to the point where you can learn to engage in simple conversation. It’s not a simple switch you can switch on and off. It’s more than the binary of functionality and dysfunctionality. It takes days, months, years, I went to therapy for seven, eight years before I got to the level I am today”
“And even then it has not stopped. It’s me day to day trying to figuring out ways in which I can deal with the hearing world”
@sanjushree.sur - Sanjushree, 22
“Earlier this year, I was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and a lot of people don’t consider this to be a disability in the first place but whatever people do when they have OCD is just so abnormal that it is very shocking to me that people don’t notice this person is so mentally stressed at this time and she needs a little bit of help, she needs a little bit of consideration.
People always refer to me as “oh there she goes cleaning again”. This is blatantly discriminatory and ableist!"
@samara.mohan__ : Samara, 17
“Whenever I tell a person that I am disabled and they are like but you are so good at studies, you are so good at this- I think that is so ableist because we can coexist, we can have our struggles and still succeed.
Disability and success can absolutely coexist! Stop being ableist.
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