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    Voices: I’m young, vibrant, disabled – why wouldn’t I be having sex?

    by Ash Self May 02, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Hannah Mittelstaedt

    I’m sure most disabled people my age can attest to people making wild assumptions about us. And it’s not just strangers, but people close to us, too.

    They look at me and immediately make snap judgements about what I can and can’t do; and what I should and shouldn’t do. And it’s getting really boring.

    I’m a 23-year-old man – assuming I don’t have sex just because I use a wheelchair would be funny, if it wasn’t so frustrating.

    I started using a wheelchair at in London were doing: drinking vodka mixed with lukewarm diet coke in the park; trying to work out if I was being flirted with or lightly bullied.

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