When I was a young girl I wondered if I had a "real" disability if people would be more sympathetic for when I was unable to do stuff...turns out I just had really a shitty family and already had the kind of disability that people who care about you would plan around and make concessions for.
In other unsurprising news: my mom this week told me to "walk it off" and stop being a self-defeating sad-sack when I told her I had developed crippling ankle (and miscellaneous other joint) pain that got worse in the current weather and from walking.











