otherwise known asthe Paralympic swimmer who couldn't come to the Paralympics without her mom as attendant. I can't swim at all, so I've not literally been where Ms. Myers is, although my own personal-care needs, though different, are extensive enough that, no, I can't really teach them to somebody I've just met.
As disappointing as this is coming from an organization designed to center disability, I think it just illustrates our culturally two-faced attitude about the value of caregiving generally, in the way it looks better from a fuzzy distance where neither providers or consumers ask for anything.
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