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Dec. 25th, 2018 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raesoflightSpent Christmas Eve with my brother and sister in law, and between all the incredible food and general merriment, I ended up having a long conversation with my sister in law during which she admitted that if she had never met me, or be put in a position to get to know me so well, she never would have realized how rigged the system in this country is against the permanently disabled, and how we a forced to skirt that system in order to have any quality of life whatsoever.
Also something I missed during the wedding was the DJ absolutely panicking when she told him to kill the strobe because I'm epileptic. She noted that the way he reacted implied that was likely the first time he had ever had to do that. Which got us onto the topic of strobe effects in movies and how she never really paid enough attention to that. She spent time after we parted for the evening looking at Does The Dog Die? Just to see their list of movies with dangerous strobe effects.
This is why I gush about my sister in law so much. I have never met anyone as willing to educate herself about disability and disability issues. As much as it has destroyed what iota of faith she had left in how this country is run, she's insisted on learning and understanding the challenges I, and everyone like me has faced. Going into the new year I am truly lucky to have gained the sister that I have. Words really do fail after a point when you have someone in your life willing to show that much solidarity.
2018 was a shitty year for so many reasons, but I'll never be able to completely hate it, because it brought me something so incredibly special. I💕 you Ash.
Also something I missed during the wedding was the DJ absolutely panicking when she told him to kill the strobe because I'm epileptic. She noted that the way he reacted implied that was likely the first time he had ever had to do that. Which got us onto the topic of strobe effects in movies and how she never really paid enough attention to that. She spent time after we parted for the evening looking at Does The Dog Die? Just to see their list of movies with dangerous strobe effects.
This is why I gush about my sister in law so much. I have never met anyone as willing to educate herself about disability and disability issues. As much as it has destroyed what iota of faith she had left in how this country is run, she's insisted on learning and understanding the challenges I, and everyone like me has faced. Going into the new year I am truly lucky to have gained the sister that I have. Words really do fail after a point when you have someone in your life willing to show that much solidarity.
2018 was a shitty year for so many reasons, but I'll never be able to completely hate it, because it brought me something so incredibly special. I💕 you Ash.
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Date: 2018-12-25 07:17 pm (UTC)