The punishment we get for admitting disabilities is why I mentioned that I do think a component of life with a disability (especially an invisible one) is learning how to get the concessions without telling anyone you're doing so. It requires a mentor who's done it, or having the disability long enough that you learn the tricks of what to say, how to say it, how to frame things, so you get what you need without ever coming out right and saying that you're on a medication or that you have a disability (and dog forbid you ever have to say you've got a mental illness). Basically, you think of what you need, and then work backwards from that, to figure out a way to frame your request such that you're implying a reason that you can see would be respectable (ie: not tainted by 'mental illness') to other people.
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Date: 11 Jun 2010 04:12 pm (UTC)