Chronic illness impacts the whole family, but some of that impact is for the best. Here are some reasons I’m glad my kids are living with my chronic illness.
Why I’m Glad My Kids Have a Mom With Chronic Illness — Livable by Design
Now that I’ve learned how to share other people’s blog posts, here’s another one I couldn’t resist reblogging here. WordPress Reader recommended this one to me, and I’m glad it did. I had to share. Sometimes we get so bogged down in the “difference” part of disability, the bias, the stigma, and the discrimination, we forget about the good things. We forget about the important skills, the important lessons we learn from disability, and those we teach other people (wittingly or unwittingly) about how to be more human; how to be more compassionate; how to be more accepting of others, especially those who are different than us.
This article is a good reminder that there is an upside to disability, even when all we’re feeling is the downside.
How Autism Self-Advocacy Revolutionalized My Life 