A reflection on internalized ableism, the belief that you should handle everything alone and that your needs matter less than others'. The speaker uses affirmations to push back, though they acknowledge the practice works differently depending on your age.
It's, again, it's that internalized ableism that says, you know, I can, I can do this myself. Um, only, only people who are much more disabled than me don't need the— need this, and I, and I don't, and I don't need it. And those are, those are hard things to reckon with. Uh, and, and I know that, uh, I use affirmations sometimes, uh, even though it kind of brings me back to, uh, There's some people who are younger than me that aren't gonna get it, but the Stuart Smalley stuff from Saturday Night Live, you know, I'm good enough and I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me. It does work if you're a kid.
