https://longreads.com/2023/02/02/things-that-able-me-christy-tending/ "At 12, I did not have the context or the language to understand what I was becoming or, more specifically, what was becoming of me." "I am worth getting my needs met, with or without a disability. I am worth taking up space. And, I have learned, if I do not take up space in the places I fear I am not enough, there will be no space for me at all."