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A 43-year-old with chronic disability explains why non-disabled people can't grasp what it's actually like. Something as simple as brushing your teeth becomes a nightly internal struggle, not a habit you just start.

A 43-year-old with chronic disability explains why non-disabled people can't grasp what it's actually like. Something as simple as brushing your teeth becomes a nightly internal struggle, not a habit you just start.
Here's a really important thing to understand. You don't know what you don't know. People who are not disabled do not understand what it is like to be disabled. Just go and start a habit, they say. And I'm over here at 43 years old still having to have an argument with myself every night about whether or not I feel like brushing my teeth.

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