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Nothing reminds you how much you missed out on than photos

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I have written on here previously about my worries regarding a school reunion. Someone in the group for that recently shared a lot of photos from times outside of school. I was not in any of these photos.

I convinced myself that I had chosen not to be part of the social aspects of school, at the time, and that was why I wasn’t part of it all.

While I knew abstractly that this wasn’t true, and that I wasn’t involved in these situations because of social exclusion. Seeing pictures of groups of people meeting up in situations I wasn’t even aware of, made this more obvious to me. I didn’t even know the things I was being excluded from were happening.

School reunion

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It’s been 10 years since I left high school and they’re looking at doing a reunion. The other day I reminded them that I am still on fact disabled and need wheelchair access. I was told they would make sure there was access. But I googled the place it looks like we’re going to go, and I can’t tell if its accessible from the pictures and now I’m scared.

Having to be in charge of making sure you can actually get to places is scary and annoying to say the least.

I can’t just go to something because chances are no one has thought to check that it it’s actually accessible for me.

I’m trying not to think about it right now. Maybe it will be accessible right? Or maybe they’ll choose a better venue. No point in worrying until I know what I’m wearying about.

High school.

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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.