July is Disability Pride month! Meghan celebrates her pride with a poem about the ups and downs of disability. Pride How do you have pride in something, That from the moment you take your first breath, They tell you you’re broken? Disabled. That’s what you are. That’s the label you wear. For all of your life, you are this thing, It’s inescapable. How do you take pride in, Your very being remaining inevitable? No matter what I do, No matter who I am. I am always this thing first. How do you take pride in something, That sets your mother on a hamster wheel of advocacy? Sends your father running for the hills? You bend, stretch, cut and stitch, And doctor your way toward perfection. Only to realize that inevitable label you live with, Will always be. Your disability, Walks into the room before you do. It announces itself so loudly in your little town, That it may as well be screamed over the school speakers. As every little head turns to stare at you, Like a zoo animal. That little silent thing, You’ve always known about yourself. You’re never going to walk. Before that very moment, You thought that […]

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