Disability Does Not Mean Inability

So. I have anxiety problems among other minor issues. some of the anxiety I have lived with my entire life. The rest, on the other hand is the result of more recent incidents that have previously been discussed on another post but still are just one part of my life just like the rest of it has always been. In combination altogether, the anxiety sometimes can and does interfere with everyday life and therefore it is considered a disability. Certain individuals who only recently really became aware of this have recently become very rude and judgemental towards me for it. I will not name anyone as that would be worse on my part. However I will gladly quote their words to make my point.

Repeatedly I have been told, get help. You need help. Talk to a counselor. Take drugs! Get help!

I have literally a lifetime of experience dealing with anxiety in varying degrees. I did have a counselor and I had the utmost trust in her for the longest time. However after she passed away, there was and is nobody else outside of a few friends and family that I trust enough to talk to without being worried about being locked up or having drugs thrown at me. I don’t do the medications that are supposed to control the anxiety because I am deathly afraid of them. I use herbal teas and such instead and they work just fine. I don’t need tranquilizers I don’t need the unwanted judgement of ppl I cannot trust and i do not need the unwanted advise of people who cannot accept a person as they are.

Here is my personal favorite, you will never find a job with that anxiety!

Oh really? You are so clueless. I have worked in numerous jobs so far including the state archives, contract work for a military base and currently five years and counting working for a kennel with a ton of dogs. So, okay I won’t find a job you deem acceptable so what? I do not exist to please you. I have managed this far just fine thank you very much!!!

And then there are the excuses trying to make what was said okay. Oh they don’t know you well enough or oh they judge everybody. No no no hahahaha. If u don’t know me that is even more reason not to pass judgement on me because u don’t even know what you are talking about you simply are making an ass of yourself. Oh you judge everybody? Haha wow you must not have many friends cuz if you judge everyone so badly, nobody will like you. You must be an awful person if that is the way u behave towards everybody.

Disabilities are nothing to judge a person by. You would be amazed how much people with problems are capable of. While some disabilities might be limiting a little it does not give them an inability to live life to the fullest.

I have wanted to speak up so badly about this for some time and I have let it bottle up but it is time to break the silence. It angers me to have some people try to pass judgement in such cruel and ridiculous ways when they really have no right to judge at all. Dont judge anyone unless you have walked a mile or two in their shoes and seen and experienced what they have. If you have not you lack the understanding to pass judgement like that.

I have said my piece. That is all.