We'd love to get to know y'all better! Take a moment to say hi to the community in the comments.
Some suggestions to include in your introduction:
Your name and pronouns
Your school or home state
Your relation to disability or lived experience (only if you feel comfortable!)
What brought you to disability advocacy?
Here is my introduction for everyone!
My name is Jill King, and I use she/they pronouns. I am a senior Psychology student at Georgia Southern University, based in Statesboro, GA (my hometown)!
While I've dealt with psychiatric disability and ADHD my whole life, I developed chronic pain at 19 and became legally blind over the course of 6 months at 20. This, as well as my ADHD diagnosis, happened during my time as a college student. This sudden progression alongside the ableist, eugenicist rhetoric seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic pushed me into disability advocacy. The need for a new wave of disability justice advocacy was abudently clear to me.
I am 22 now, and will be taking a gap year before starting my Masters in Clinical Mnetal Health Counseling.
I look forward to hearing from y'all!
