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I’ve walked the line between visibly and invisibly disabled my entire life.

I stand in the bathroom for six hours.

I stand in the bathroom for six hours.

I’ve walked the line between visibly and invisibly disabled my entire life.

This assumption that I would want to hide my hearing aids always feels to me like a hint that I should be embarrassed by my disability — but I have no intention of keeping it a secret.

I wanted to look as white and non-threatening as possible because the invisibility of my disability in conjunction with the vulnerability of being a Black woman was absolutely unbearable.

I wanted to look as white and non-threatening as possible because the invisibility of my disability in conjunction with the vulnerability of being a Black woman was absolutely unbearable.

One day I was “healthy” and the next day I was sick — slowly and then all at once.