Our condenser is broken at work. I got an evaporative cooling vest and actually only put a sports bra underneath. Lots of people are like let her go home, there's nothing to do, my classroom is spotless. I just feel nauseated and a little weak, it is over 97 degrees in the building.
My boss came in and asked if I considered myself disabled. I said I had an adverse heath circumstance I was dealing with aggressively and not bothering anyone with. I bought my own box fan. I know he's not allowed to ask me that, he's a pretty nice guy and wasn't veiling a threat or anything, and probably did so out of concern and ignorance.
I really haven't attached that word to myself. I still seem more intelligent than a lot of people I work with. I walk normally. I'm less than I was and I hate it, but probably so is the aide that comes in who thinks nobody knows she's drunk, or the 200 lb guy down the hall. I don't think of them as disabled either, probably first to be consumed by a pride of lions just like myself but able to operate in society with little problem.
I always said if I became disabled I wouldn't really care if someone "put the person before the disorder" or called me crippled, semantics would be the least of my problem. It's just, am I in that category now?
My boss came in and asked if I considered myself disabled. I said I had an adverse heath circumstance I was dealing with aggressively and not bothering anyone with. I bought my own box fan. I know he's not allowed to ask me that, he's a pretty nice guy and wasn't veiling a threat or anything, and probably did so out of concern and ignorance.
I really haven't attached that word to myself. I still seem more intelligent than a lot of people I work with. I walk normally. I'm less than I was and I hate it, but probably so is the aide that comes in who thinks nobody knows she's drunk, or the 200 lb guy down the hall. I don't think of them as disabled either, probably first to be consumed by a pride of lions just like myself but able to operate in society with little problem.
I always said if I became disabled I wouldn't really care if someone "put the person before the disorder" or called me crippled, semantics would be the least of my problem. It's just, am I in that category now?
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