The type to defiantly tell the New York Times she's "pissed" about having MS - and to give zero effs about offending anyone by sporting "FU MS" nails to accept her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.īecause I'm plenty angry. But I would have loved a "Jagged Little Pill"-era Alanis Morissette type to emulate, a badass disability warrior to give me permission to be angry that my body was betraying me. We're supposed to be "humbled" by illness, grateful for the "lesson" that suffering will surely teach us. To many nondisabled people, anger isn't an emotion deemed appropriate for the chronically ill. Image Source: Los Angeles Times via Getty Images / Myung J. It also created permanent nerve damage.Ĭhristina Applegate and Sadie Grace LeNoble at the SAG Awards.
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Covering up my skin rather than letting it breathe triggered more frequent and serious flares, overheating and strangling my already-inflamed blood vessels. If I'd had a disability role model like Applegate to look up to when I was growing up, rather than women's magazines of the early aughts telling me to cover up my imperfections, maybe I wouldn't have hidden the unsightly bleeding under my skin - caused by vasculitis, an inflammation and bursting of blood vessels - with tight clothes and toxic makeup. Applegate forced the world to look at disability head on.
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