By Adria Nassim When I’m in front of an audience sharing about my life with multiple disabilities, I try to be very relaxed, natural, and easygoing and make my presentations fun and interesting. I recognize that not every person listening may have had prior experience with anyone with a disability, and they may be a… Read more »
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Finding Meaningful Relationships Is Worth the Effort
For many young people with disabilities, finding reciprocal, age-appropriate peer relationships at the adolescent and young adult level can be difficult, but it can and does happen. Through consistent social skills therapy over a period of 3.5 years, I was able to learn the skills to help me become more confident socially around my peers… Read more »
Finding Good Health Care in the Disability Community
By Adria Nassim Find a Medical Team that Understands Both Visible and Invisible Disabilities As a person with multiple disabilities including cerebral palsy, a learning disability, and an autism spectrum disorder, I have had both good and bad interactions with health care providers. Many times, I find that the world of adult health care is… Read more »
Rolling Out the Welcome Mat: Finding a Community to Thrive In and Call Home
by Adria Nassim Sometimes, parents and professionals will ask me, “What had to happen to make it possible for you to live independently?” First off, I let them know it took a lot of planning and research, not just in my young adult years, but beginning in young childhood. We knew by my teen years,… Read more »