Invisible Disablities

An invisible disability is apparent to you and it is apparent to the people who live with you or are close enough to see your daily life. It is only invisible to strangers, employers, and institutions that expect disability to look like a specific physical marker. Living with invisible conditions means carrying real physical strain and hard functional limits. Looking fine on the outside does not mean your nervous system or cellular mechanics can function without medication, specific environmental conditions, and material support.

Standard clinical and educational settings often try to manage invisible conditions with behavioral policing, constant prompting, or demands to push past physical capacity. I reject compliance-based models like traditional ABA in favor of non-reliance, minimal prompting, and actual accommodations. Focus in session could look like securing structural, environmental, and institutional changes that match how your body and brain actually operate, building support around your autonomy instead of relying on external oversight, forced prompts, or behavioral compliance; and recognising your capacity with and without care and what care looks like whether its medication advocacy, a bodily energy limit, or a baseline that doesnt meet the expectations others would wish. 

These are topics contained within the above text: 

• Accommodations & Inaccessible Systems 

• Mitochondrial Disease 

• Chronic Illness 

• Tourette's / Tic Disorders 

• ABA Applied Behavioral Analysis (nonreliance model and minimal prompting; moving away from compliance)