I am once again asking you to identify as disabled if you have even the slightest cause to. Fuck, if you’re COLORBLIND you should identify as disabled. Chronic conditions like hypertension. Mental illnesses. Disorder-level social anxiety. Migraines. If you have a mental or physical health condition that lasts more than 6 months and prevents you from doing anything that is considered a “normal” thing people can do, you are disabled.
The second part of this is I am once again asking you to understand and acknowledge that every disability is different and there is no one disabled experience. Identify as part of the group but don’t assume you understand and speak for everyone else in it.
Fun fact, before I got lasik I knew my vision sucked but I didn't know I was actually legally blind until one of the doctors mentioned something afterward (not realizing that I didn't already know.) I hadn't even really joked about being blind before because I didn't think it was "bad enough," yet it turns out I could have been saying it seriously for years.
So yeah, definitely don't be afraid to identify as disabled, it doesn't matter if your thing "isn't as bad" because 1) it's not a contest and 2) you're probably just more used to dealing with it than you realize.
