Well hello everybody and welcome back to my channel
or if you are new welcome to my channel.
I hope you are doing super duper well today.
So for today's video I thought I would talk about something that I personally experience
myself quite a lot and I see it happen quite a lot
and I hear about it quite a lot.
And that is when people say well you don't 'look' disabled.
and therefore they don't think you should be doing whatever you are doing
or they think you are lying or … whatever they're doing it for.
It's the whole you don't look disabled like disabled has a look!
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So for some unknown reason people seem to think that there is a certain look that you
have to be disabled and if you don't look have that look you
aren't disabled basically.
And, I think that it's just people not having their mind open to the fact that there are
things such as invisible illnesses and things that are going on in the outside.
or even illnesses that maybe you can see but some times don't effect you as badly as
others.
And I think obviously the most obvious one is if you don't have a leg
or an arm or if you are in a wheelchair all the time
or if you are old.
If you are young people think that you are healthy and that you are too young to be disabled
Blah de blah de blah.
It's just … It happens to me
and it has happened to me and I see it happening
and I hear it happening And a lot of invisible illnesses are illnesses
obviously which are invisible.
You can't see them on the outside.
On the outside, you're completely normal and you look healthy for the most part.
I think that the most common one that I hear about from my friends or that I see in the
papers - I know I read one recently or maybe it was
a video…
I think I read it though, and that is people parking in a disabled base??
disabled base?
haha a disabled space.
when they don't look disabled.
Now I hate the whole like you 'look' disabled thing because there is no look that you have
to be disabled.
[anyway] I know I read one recently where a woman and her daughter went to a shopping
mall or centre whenever you are in the world.
And the mother is disabled and she has a wheel chair but she is not wheel chair bound
Some days are better than others And some days she is able to walk a little
bit and some days she can't walk at all.
And on this day, she happened to be having a half decent day so when they got to the
shopping centre they parked in the disabled space because she has a disabled spot (badge).
And someone obviously saw them and they left a note and …
Now, this woman and daughter had a really good day in the shopping centre because she
… you know, the mum was having a good day and
managed to walk around the shopping centre.. slowly all be it but managed to walk around
with her daughter which she hadn't done in a while because she was having you know
she had a bad spell and she was having relatively good this day.
She paid for it after and she didn't feel so good when she got back to the car
but at the time of getting out the car and you know for the most part of the day she
was having a really good day health wise and everything.
And someone saw them and obviously thought that they didn't look 'disabled'.
because there's a look (sarcasm) and they left a note on the car saying that
they should be ashamed of themselves for parking in a disabled bay
when there are plenty of people that disabled and need it and all of this.
And I know if I got a note like this I would be horrified
I would get so upset.
And so did, you know, did this woman because just because you happen to see this woman
when she was having an ok moment, doesn't mean you know this person's life.
doesn't mean that you know what is wrong with this person if there's something wrong.
I know that there are plenty that do park in disabled bays that aren't disabled because
I've seen it happen in terms of I know the person.
and I will I will go and talk to them and I had a conversation
with someone, a customer at work about it because they moaned that someone parked in
the disabled bay and shouldn't have.
And I did turn around (politely) and I said but you don't know what's going on on
the inside.
Just because they look, you know, they look healthy
that they're standing and not in a wheelchair, they've got all their legs and arms and
feet and whatever.
Doesn't mean that they're not disabled.
Doesn't mean that you know they don't have a disability and they're just ok at
that moment.
You could see them when they're ok and 5 minutes later they could be collapsed on the
floor and need their wheelchair again you don't know someones life.
You don't know what happens behind closed doors
You don't know what happens inside their body.
And there is no 'look' to be disabled.
You don't have to be a certain age, you can be new born
you can be 90 years old you can be 25 30.
There is no age, and there's no look and there's no you know obvious signs that someone's
disabled.
Yes, sometimes there is you know an obvious look in terms of a wheelchair bound,
no leg, no arm.
I get that but disabilities aren't always visible.
You know something can be covered, something can be different from you see them
in one minute and two minutes later when you're gone it
is a whole other story.
And I think that people need to understand and open their minds a little bit more and
you know it is not judging by its cover.
theres no look to be disabled.
if someone's got a hearing loss can you see that?
No… you can't!
'I've had it by doctors,' 'you don't look sick.'
'you look fine.'
'you look healthy.'
I went to a restaurant for my sister's birthday was it my sister?
yeah, I think it was my sisters.
And I don't really go to restaurants to eat because of getting places after is isn't
very possible.
And I remember my mum being like 'we will take the wheel chair so that obviously
you can get home after, do you want to go in the wheel chair or do you want to just
have the wheelchair for after?'
And I instantly said I wanted just to go in the wheel chair.
Although I didn't need to be in the wheel chair from before I ate,
because I was having relatively ok day, though I didn't need to be in the wheel
chair, I still felt like if I walked in
and then went out in a wheel chair people would be judging me
and I know I should care and it shouldn't happen
but it does.
And even that angered me because I was like why should I have to feel like this.
Why should I feel like I'm going to get judged by other people.
What frustrates me the most when people, kind of,
know me they'll still judge other people because they can't see anything wrong with
them and it's like you know I have an illness
(that you can't see), does that mean that you don't believe me
when I say I have an illness?!
When I had my feeding tube and people would still be like oh but you look so healthy….
Yes, I decided to stick this tube up my nose, down my throat,
through my stomach into my small bowel
just for fun…..
:|
So I think my message for this video -even though I have just rambled on is just
Please don't judge people by what they look like
because just as people don't know what's going inside your body,
you don't know whats going on inside their body.
You see them for 30 seconds but you don't see what happens 30 minutes
later or even a minute later.
like, please don't judge someone because they look fine,
because there are sooo many illnesses and disabilities that are not visible.
Hence invisible illnesses!
And you then don't see what you're doing to their mental health as well.
It's just, open your mind to the fact that not all illnesses
and disabilities are visible.
There are so many that aren't.
And there's no look to be disabled!
I don't know if this video made any sense because I just rambled.
I didn't actually bother to, kind of script out what I was going to say.
I just thought I'd wing it and whatever comes out my mouth is what is in my heart.
So, yeah!
That is all for this video.
I really hope you enjoyed it, or learnt something
or it opened your mind up a little bit more.
in terms of illnesses and disabilities because we really need to spread the word on invisible
illnesses.
We really need to raise that awareness.
And I'm not just talking for the ones I have,
I'm just talk about invisible illnesses in general.
We need to raise awareness for it So please, whether it's sharing this video,
whether it's talking to people or if you see it happening saying something
to the person.
Having a conversation with someone if you hear them say something.
Whatever it is, please just help raise the awareness.
Spread the word and try and stop the discrimination and this thing in people's head of you have
to look a certain way.
So yeah. be sure to give it a thumbs up.
And if you would like to have any input on this video
or you have any experiences, I'd love to hear them and for people to
be able to read them so that they can see what's happening and
understand a bit more.
Be sure to leave those in the comments below or on any of my social media which is all
in the description box below.
And right up there I'm going to leave the link to my last video
which I think you'll really enjoy.
And right down there, I'm going to leave you a surprise video.
It will a health related video but we'll just be surprised at which one it is.
So click down there if you want to see that.
And until next time, Keep Watching
Stay Strong And Stay Safe
Bye Guys
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