Hurrah for Frances Ryan (‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women, 9 April)! As a disabled woman of 60 who has lived with a visible disability since I was 12, seeing Frances’s article just made me want to shout “Hell, yes”.
I’ve spent my life sanitising my experience of disability and several long-term health conditions, hiding the less palatable aspects. Working twice as hard as my non-disabled peers. Achieving a senior position at the cost of my own health and wellbeing.
