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Neurodivergence
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White genderqueer writer Meg Day wrote of meeting Laura Hershey at a Lambda Literary retreat and Laura asking Meg why she wasn't reading certain Deaf and disabled writers, saying, "these are your foremothers."
I didn't know about Laura or her writing until after she died—she'd FB friend requested me but I didn't know who she was. Yet, as Laura Hershey wrote in her poem "Translating the Crip," here we are: "thriving and unwelcome, the irony of the only possible time and place." And we are writi
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― The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
― The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
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People don’t necessarily realize it when they contribute to the erosion of a child’s self-worth, but kids pay attention to how people treat them, and they get the message loud and clear. I wish I could say it didn’t distort their self-perception and make them more sensitive and insecure, but it does.
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― Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction
― Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction
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