Embracing Your Disability Can Change Your Life Whether you were born with your disability or if it was acquired, we all go through different stages of accepting it. And then there are those of us who never quite get there, that, if you ask me, can be one of the most tragic things.

People who live with disabilities are troubled by an incessant feeling of disgrace that can be as hard to live with as the actual disability. Disgrace can’t same as guilt. Shame is relentless and speaks to how we feel about ourselves rather than how we feel about something we did.

How does this happen? How do we begin to feel wounded? Small? Vulnerable? Shamed? Humiliated? It is usually a response to something that happens to us—that is done to us. We are by one way or another insulted, embarrassed, or damaged by the activities of an individual or individuals who exact injury upon our feeling of self—our very being.

Despite the source, this inescapable feeling of shame can bring about a lifetime of dread, evasion, and tension when confronted with issues that trigger comparative emotions. The triggers might be unpretentious and apparently detached, however that sentiment of being reduced remains.

Disability is not shameful. Why should you feel ashamed of your body just because it works differently? Disability is a natural part of the human experience. We will all have disabilities if we live long enough. Disability can happen to anyone at any time, and it’s not a reason to stop living. We do not have “special needs” either — we have the same needs as all human beings.

We just live in a society that doesn’t equally value different bodies and ways of moving, sensing, and thinking. Instead of including us and embracing our diverse perspectives, society labels our needs as “special” and therefore inconvenient. When you’re inconveniencing someone, how do you tend to feel? Embarrassed. Ashamed.

Your disability should not keep you from living a fulfilling life. But do you know what has gotten in the way? People who think disability is shameful. People who are afraid to get to know you or date you because they have bought into society’s beauty standards and think disabled bodies are unattractive. Employers who look at you, make assumptions about your abilities and don’t hire you. A system that doesn’t give people with disabilities equal access to health care and home care services, but then shames us for needing government assistance.

At times, all these things might have come together to make you feel sadness and shame about something but you should never have to feel ashamed about — being yourself. It might take years to overcome these feelings, and maybe you are still struggling. You are a human being, and you have value. You should believe that you were put on this Earth for a reason.

Embracing Your Disability Can Change Your Life

While it’s not easy accepting a body that’s not as strong as you would like it to be, there are dozens of reasons why you should do so anyway. If you’re looking to transform your life with a disability, read on for the most amazing ways embracing your disability can change your life.

1) It’s totally freeing:  If we embrace our disability and no longer care if we get stared at, or worse, we open up a completely new ‘free’ way of living, feeling and thinking. If you can go through life without worrying anymore what people are thinking, you’ll be amazed at how much happier you’ll be.

2) No more shame: There is actually a lot of shame that many people with disabilities feel ashamed.  Regardless of whether they’re with family or out in the open, individuals with disabilities are much of the time ashamed of what their identity is By grasping your disability and telling the world, “I love who I am because it is me, and I love me,” the notion of feeling ashamed because you’re disabled will no longer be in your head. No longer will you feel you can be judged.

3) You can begin your life: Especially true with folks who acquire their disability through an illness or injury when you don’t embrace your disability many of us unconsciously put our lives on hold. Whether it’s not wanting to go back to work or school because you’re afraid of how different it will be, or maybe you know you have to find a new profession and it just seems too daunting, many of us are afraid to move on.

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4) People will be drawn to you: One of the best side effects of embracing your disability is that the energy you emanate will change to a more attractive wavelength. And when your energy is more appealing, people who don’t know you and people who do; all of them will be more drawn you. Are you single, looking for new friends? All of this can be helped. Whether you believe in “feelable” energies or not, there is definitely something to this.

5) It’ll help you focus: Another significant thing happens when you embrace your disability is that you quit contemplating it constantly, and when you’re ready to do that, you’re ready to proceed onward to increasingly significant things to devour your headspace — imaginative undertakings, potential goals, your activity, family, whatever you’d prefer to concentrate on in life that is a mess progressively significant by being overwhelmingly worried about your disability.

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