Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

by Rebekah Taussig

I’m fine—I promise! Can you see how fast I’m moving? Can you tell how many times I’ve done this? Can you see how capable I am? And then I hear him. Such a simple, casual sentence. “Looks like you’ve got this,” he says. I look up. “Yes!” I say. “I really do.”