“My disability isn’t a trivia question.

“This is the most personal, potentially embarrassing question you could ever ask somebody. Because you don’t know. Not everybody with a disability is comfortable talking about the specifics of their condition. And they shouldn’t have to be. Discussing your disability should be 100 percent voluntary. Whether or not I want to discuss my disability is up to me. And no, I don’t really want to talk about it with a stranger at a wedding.

“…it seems like one answer invites endless invasiveness. Am I a tool that exists simply to educate? Or can I say ‘no’ without being the bitter disabled lady?”

Mary Bircher – The Mighty 2018

Read Mary Bircher’s full article here for the context of the quote, plus dancing and a wedding.