A while ago I was chatting in a chronic illness forum and someone was being told they had it easier becoming disabled as a teen or young adult. I didn’t agree at all.
Before becoming housebound, I had a pile of stuff behind me and life experience … makes experiences easier.
I can look back on travel as a child, I had years of work experience and education to help me get a remote job, so many things that mean I have relative privilege over someone who hasn’t gotten to do any of those things.
Yes, it sucks that working has been a hellish struggle my entire adult life. Really sucks, and I think I haven’t even come to terms with how much that has impacted me. But regardless of that, I have the outcomes from that work experience which makes employment easier me than it would be for someone who has never been able to get work experience.
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