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It Exist, Now lets Talk about it!
I was originally going to write about something;however, I felt that this was more important especially in today's climate. As you know, because I have literally talked about it every story I wrote since joining WRICO. I am a Disabled Advocate, whose primary disability is Hearing Loss and my Disability Title is Hard of Hearing(comment, if you wanna about Disability Title, because I will use it throught this story). My religion is Pagan Agnostic, whose sexuality and gender identity is Vexisexual(more than happy to explain if anyone ask in the commits) and my Race/Ethnicity is Colombian Jewish Ukrainian American Swede(White-Passing, I don't identify as White even though I am of European Descent, please respect that). Yes, I use the WHOLE thing when referring to my Racial and Ethnic Identity. That is who I am, and the person I have come to be and I am proud of that. But, I started advocating for the Disabled Community back in 2010, I have noticed a trend in these past tens years I can no longer ignore it. So, now, I am going to talk about it, and hopefully by the time I am done writing this, I have done good enough job of explaining it and educating you about it(fingers crossed). I will say what I am about talk is HIGHLY TRIGGERING!!!even more so than my last story. So, feel free to leave and stop reading because it will be very emotional for some people. It's emotional for me whenever I talk about it. So, I am WARNING YOU NOW!! Also, I like to say I have DONE my research on the topic a lots of it, because 1. I love doing research and lots of it, I give my OCD and ADHD credit for that. 2. I wanna be factual and VERY accurate on the subject matter especially when talking about other communities from beside own particularity Black, Indigenous and People of Color. I will use BIPOC from now on. My job as Disabled Advocate is to advocate for everyone include Disabled BIPOC. Oh, remember in beginning how I said I was going to use Disabity Title later in the story? Well, now I am going to use it for remainer of this story. You see, we The Disabled Community us IDENTITY FIRST Language not PEOPLE FIRST let me be very clear on that. Identity First Language is our way of taking our Disability which was seen as a negative and turn it into something to be proud of. It's our way of saying I like my Disability, it is apart of me and there is nothing to be ashamed about it. That being said, I will now get to the point. Like, I said I started to notice trend in my work of being a Disabled Advocate. At first, I didn't really see it, nor did I pay to much attention to it, but as the years went by it got to the point where I could no longer. By the time 2016 Presidential Election rolled in and The Black Lives Matter Movement started gaining world wide attention. I said "enough was enough, I can no longer ignore it, something has to be done and nobody is talking about it, nobody is seeing it, yet it's right there, you just have to look for it". There actually people out there who have been talking about for years and decades, but nobody is listening, and because so, they are forgotten, and will longer exist within their Legacy even though it was such HUGE part of their lives"! So, what am I...