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Finding beauty in disability

Home / Living with FSHD / Finding beauty in disability

Posted on: Dec 17, 2018

Finding beauty
No Bility, by Aubrie Lee (click to enlarge)

by AUBRIE LEE

I have a disability. It has manifested differently throughout my life, I have felt differently about it in various stages of my life, and people have treated me differently my whole life because of it.

I could walk when I was a child, and I transitioned to using a wheelchair over my teenage years. Now, I’m an adult (or so they tell me), and soon I will have spent more of my life with a wheelchair than without one.

It’s funny—as my disability became more pronounced, I became more comfortable with it. That has been my journey.

Now I want to bring others on that journey. I want to bring you on that journey. My disability is not all of me, but I would not be who I am without it. It’s not bad. It’s different. It’s notable. In fact, it’s even … no, could it be? Dare I say it? Beautiful.

What is beauty but the quality that beholders’ minds decide? Behold me. I am temporary flesh and durable machine. I am an index for the progression of society. I am a creator of art, ideas, and dreams. I am a glimpse of your future. I am a person whom friends and family love no less. I am a case study in the possible. I am one who can behold the world and treasure it.

And I am not the only one.

So when you think of disability, I want you to think of the beauty in it.

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  1. Amy Bekier says

    December 20, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    You go girl! You are everything and more.

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  2. Nancy says

    December 20, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    You are a beautiful soul, inside and out ❤️

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  3. Noble Roth-Saalberg says

    December 23, 2018 at 7:59 pm

    What a refreshingly brilliant and creative approach to life! I genuinely hope your outlook and insight will empower many others! Thank you for your richly poetic vision!!!

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  4. Avantika says

    December 29, 2018 at 11:12 am

    Loved reading this as a person with FSHD! Kudos to you and stay as fiesty and shining.

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