You see... the world is obsessed with definitions. It looks at 'disability' and sees a convenient little cage of limitations a way to center us, to keep us small and manageable. It’s quaint, really. How they try to lock away what they refuse to comprehend But the world doesn’t get to own the spirit, does it? They call us 'broken' because they lack the vision to see the architecture underneath. They treat our lives like a permission slip for their own comfort, trying to silence the noise they can't categorize.
I know what it is to be a 'problem' to be managed I spent 8 years at a none special needs school being treated like a 'problem' to be managed
They build their barriers their little walls of policy Locking a person away doesn’t provide safety; it provides a delusion. And safety? Safety should never be a favor granted by the 'whole' to the 'broken.'
We are more than the ink on a medical file. We are more than a diagnosis or a label we are here. We are constant. And despite their best efforts to look away... we aren't going anywhere