What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

Specifically going to a mainstream high school, rather than an SEN high school. It wasn’t the school I wanted to go to, it had a lot to work on with access, and I was kind of like there test run for that. But looking back on it now I think I benefited more from being there, than I would have done from a school that was fully accessible to me from the get go.

It obviously wasn’t the lack of accessibility that I benefited from. That made things difficult. But I got to be around people and innaccessiblity that reflected reality, more than a specifically accessibility school.

I don’t think as disabled people it actually helps to be placed in situations that make things overly easier for us, as they are not going to last. And I actually benefited from the opposites.