What is the greatest gift someone could give you?

I don’t think many people do.

I just wish people would look at me and see a person, not someone in capable of various things.

Just see me as a person who’s trying to live my life just like you.

Years of people seeing me as a disabled person, has had a bigger impact on me than I think I sometimes realise. I struggle to see myself as anything more than my disability. And I struggle with other people, having issues that are shown a lot more respect and understanding that my own issues are shown.

If people just saw me as a normal person with issues, just like everybody else. And not as consumingly, magical species of disabled person, that’s supposed to have eased living differently. I think I would do a lot better emotionally in my day-to-day life.

I’m not perfect, no one is. Things are difficult for everyone. Just because I haven’t known anything different doesn’t make this easy. You expecting it to be easy makes it more difficult. I’m trying the way everybody else is.

I’m sorry, if this post is a bit all over the place, I think I’ve got a bit emotional with it.