#disability rage

I think that disabled/chronically ill children and teenagers should be allowed to feel angry, sad, frustrated, furious and whatever other negative feeling they have towards their disability/chronic illness.

This life sucks, okay? Especially for a child/teenage.

It sucks for adults too and they also have the right to feel all those feelings but children and teenagers have it rougher because they don’t have the maturity yet to understand certain nuances, to find resources that can help them mentally and physically. Their worlds are much smaller and also they have less freedom because they depend on their parents and other adults who might or might not be great supporters (and usually they aren’t).

Also, younger years are the years when you usually want to do a lot of things physically, go on adventures, travel, do tons of shit with your friends and if your body can’t do that, if you find yourself limited by your disability/illness that can totally fuck you up mentally, crash your self-esteem, your sense of worth, your dreams.

I notice this difference in me. As a disabled child/teen I didn’t know how to cope with my disability, I didn’t know where to look for other disabled people (I didn’t even want to). Now I’m still disabled as I was back then but I feel pretty fine with it, I accepted it, and I understand my worth, I found my community, I took this as my identity and know how to help others.

So, don’t shush kids when they feel like crying for their situation or when they want to scream and break things.

I would be told to stop crying because there’s no point.

Well, there is. You need to let go those feelings. You need to let them free. Otherwise you’re just going to bottle it up and in the end you’ll blow off, and it’ll be worse.