Flutterfly Invasion


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18th July 2012

Don't look past my disabled body - love it →

dailydares:

Really great piece on body image:

The notion of “looking past” disability to somehow see “the real person” is one I have come to find deeply offensive. I spent my teenage years thinking that I needed to find someone who could ignore my physical body and see my “attributes” - my intelligence and humour, my mad knitting skillz. I thought that the only logical way for someone to find me attractive would be for them to ignore what I look like. It didn’t occur to me until years later that my body is also an attribute.

This is beautiful.

Tagged: disability

Source: dailydares

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