Guerrilla Girls: File A Complaint

My complaint (one of many) questions why negative stigmas surround individuals who suffer form invisible disabilities. I want to complain how I don't understand what is so hard about seeing an individual as a complete and whole human being first and then the disability they struggle with everyday. My furious venting pokes and prods at why, why, WHY is it so hard to connect human to human within our abilities? Why is it that if I am honest about my invisible disability in a professional, or academic setting I am automatically thrown into the "other" category and required to prove my disability? When did owning my valid bodily and mental limits get twisted into "You're putting limits on yourself Mackenzie. No one cares about your disability."?

This is a generalized, quick version of a part of my story. This is a wicked problem that I am trying to pull apart by using my knowledge of psychology, and of leadership studies by using art as the bridge between the two to communicate when words fail & the process of art making to reconcile my experience with this sense of "other". This is just my thoughts, experience and curious inquires as to a vast population of people who also experience a sense of "other" and who maybe got used to being treated with their disability as the first thing people notice and have adapted. I aim to prompt those who are able bodied and minded to think twice about the bias they have towards non able bodied or minded individuals; try on their shoes for size. I also aim to reach those who identify with my sense of "other" and may also not have words for the experience. I'm just trying to connect - one human to another.