My mom has benign tumor called a neuroma in her brain. She was gonna have surgery on it.
Before that she had two kids. My sister and my brother. Doctors said no more kids or my mom would probably die due to health complications.
My mom had my other brother after. Doctors insisted.
No more kids!
So three years pass and my mom is about to have surgery to remove said tumor. A pregnancy test was required.
And that’s how they found out I happened.
So doctors pressure for abortion.
My mother, the strong catholic woman she is, has me months later. And nearly died. She’s bedridden for a couple years after. Still has health issues.
And me? I would stop breathing in the middle of the night. I hated to be held. I was always sick. Basically a problem child.
When I was 3 I was diagnosed with Anhydrosis. My body doesn’t sweat, so extreme exertion or hot temps are life threatening.
Doctors didn’t know how to keep me alive. My mom did. She figured most of it out. They gave my mom laundry lists of things I couldn’t do. That I would need 24 hour care for my whole life.
Plus problems with the school. (after my gym teacher almost killed me by not believing my disability the school offered $10,000 if I never came back).
There are still a lot of things I can’t do. Won’t be able to do. I’m disabled and will be my whole life.
But the doctors were wrong. I’m capable of taking care of myself for the most part. I’m going to college and I’m gonna be the best damn nurse I can.
What I hate is when people say people like me shouldn’t be born. That we cost society to much and we’re a burden.
To hell with it. I hear it all the time that disabled people should be aborted. How “assisted suicide” is a good thing.
We’re alive and kicking. More than just me. We shouldn’t have to post out histories to prove we’re worth something. That it’s not as bad as predicted. We shouldn’t have to beg for our lives.
Listen to us.
(Rant over.)
Still alive and thriving!!!
Reblogging to remind people that ableism effects and threatens real people like Lavinia, that eugenics and abortion suck, and to appreciate someone I’d easily consider my best friend
Why I’m alive and thriving and anyone who thinks I’m better off dead can suck it
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