Stop sugarcoating ableism

How the most hurtful ableist incident I've ever experienced changed me for better and for worse

Hello,

The past few weeks, a quote from the author Marian Keyes has been bloating around social media: "I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'"

I mean, it's a cheesy quote, right? It’s almost banal in how…