Blair Braverman's A++ Insight into Living While Disabled
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jesse_the_kIn addition to the mushing life, BlairBraverman writes a twice-a-month advice column "Tough Love" at Outside Magazine. In this letter, she's responding to a disabled person whose hiking partner is always pushing her to go faster.
When you struggle to keep up with [him], it’s not because you’re doing less than him. It’s because you’re doing more: hiking, yes, but also caring for a body with significant medical needs and carrying the mental burden of worry about medication and health emergencies. You are not less than. You are, quite literally, working harder.
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