(in a friendly market, so the suspense was minimal, although there were definitely trips of mine they declined to go on.)
But I am proud of it because I've tossed around the idea about someone having a "recovery' from their disability, only to get stymied by the twist that might send her(mostly, though I think I started one with a male character too) to choose disabled life anew.
Funny how my first adventure in science-fiction led me to my most "Write what you know," resolution ever. To Wit: tech let her down.
In other news, I wrote about someone having a hard time considering Britney disabled, only to discover that I do, too.(maybe in a different way, and also knowing that people who are not in our community don't necessarily feel like the Welcome Wagon shows up when we invite them in, but if she wants to claim it, she has a mental-health disability. If she would say that someday, it would be huge for the mental- health movement...not sure how much it helps if we say it, but when I tweeted about it, maybe I was being too delicate.)
Although, yes, I have a lot of old. internalized shame about my own conditions, I think this is related to some of the embarrassment I felt being rebuffed at times like that, both in my own family and as a baby activist with a disability-pride brain-freeze.(Memoir title: Looking For Solidarity In All The Wrong Places) I got a lot of this:
ME(flush with excitement about an article, or some shit) So, you can see, if we come together, in our shared needs as disabled people....(Thinking about this now, I can't believe I ever thought this would be this easy, ever. I think even forty-seven year old me is not proud enough for twenty-year-old me.)
NEWBIE(especially if they're older)
I don't have a disability...I'm being *treated* for(disabling condition)
So, I pretty much don't say someoneI don't know is disabled unless they are out somewhere in a chair that's on fire.
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