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3 Ways I'm Untangling My Internalized Ableism
Today I saw a post about an “old couple party” that some friends from college were involved in, and it reminded me of those that my parents went to years back, in their 30s and 40s, when I was young. It was meant to be fun and funny to imagine themselves as elderly folk. And I remember thinking it funny back then, to see my parents and their friends dressed up in grey wigs, with pillows stuffed into too large pants and bras to make them larger, using wheelchairs, canes, and walkers, and with thick glasses or packages of Depends or Tena to denote their incontinence and bad eyesight being carried along or worn.
