A friend, who is also a person with disabilities, sent me this. It's part of a broader letter they are writing attempting to access supports. It's been sitting heavy with me and I'm glad they shared 
They sent if after reading this story about a man who attempted to access mental health supports multiple times but did not receive the care he needed. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Full text of the note: "COVID was the first time the general population had restrictions placed on their daily activities. I hoped it would facilitate a greater understanding from friends/family of my daily experience as a PWD. It did facilitate a level of understanding at first"
"I saw one comical social media post at the beginning of 2020 from a PWD stating they ‘had more genuine offers of food delivery in the past week than in their previous 18 years of illness’ – which I experienced also, but tapered off quickly."
"Coronavirus brought me to one of my most difficult realizations; people will never accept me as a disabled person because I don’t ‘look’ sick. I am young, a woman and have co-morbid conditions that may trigger harmful, prejudiced behaviour’s in medical professionals and..."
"the general public. I realized that any disabled patient... may be forced to endanger their wellbeing or humiliate themselves to access basic resources. They may have to gather and provide evidence that they are suffering enough to be given access to basic resources."
"Additionally, in few deeply unfortunate cases, they may have to gather and provide evidence that a medical professional has discriminated against them and/or treated them with bias."
"Nobody should ever have to be humiliated to prove this aspect of disability – yet this experience fills the days, weeks and years of many people in my shoes." End text
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