When Your Superpower Is Being Invisible

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My pitch about the lived experience of being disabled was accepted, and you can read the article via the link

“When your superpower is being invisible: Lived Experience of Disability. An invisible disability is a life-altering condition. 1 in 7 of the UK’s population have an invisible disability – we are everywhere, you just don’t know it, because our superpower is being invisible.

“This is in no way a bash the NHS, or the hardworking social worker’s piece, this is my lived experience of invisible disability, the services who are working to support me. And the ways that they don’t quite work in the way that the Social Care Institute of Excellence had in mind. An invisible disability is a life-altering condition that is not apparent just by looking at someone. Guess what? This covers 1 in 7 of the UK’s population – so we are everywhere, you just don’t know it, because our superpower is being invisible”.