To mark the final day of Disability Pride Month, CHASI presents a new piece from CHASI artist-in-residence Sharon Strauss: “In spite of it all, I’m proud I’m me”
Sharon writes: “Growing up with an invisible disability was hard. Made more difficult by my own ignorance of it. For so long I felt broken, wrong, not enough. My diagnosis was a relief. A vindication. But the more I live with it, the less it feels like a sentencing. There are still bad days, low days, struggles. But I wouldn’t be the me I am if I had been born normal. I find joy in my hyper-fixations, inspiration in my eccentricities, connection in shared experiences. In spite of it all, I’m proud I’m me.”
