'Throughout my life, this message was repeated continually to me by medical professionals, educators, friends and family.'
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And we should not assume that life in a diagnosed body will be bad. I, like most disabled people, could be described in a multitude of ways — someone who graduated from Harvard, is hard of hearing, loves dogs, keeps herniating disks, breaks a lot of bones, is a tenure-track professor, almost always feels tired and/or in pain.
We’ve likely all heard some version of the following: An expectant parent is asked about the sex of their forthcoming baby, and they respond with something like, “We don’t care, as long as it’s healthy.”Each time I hear this, it shocks me.
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