“There’s no amount of fish oil that will revive these retinas” I want to cross-stitch that on a pillow.

This was so fun.

The "you are too pretty to be blind" is so reminiscent of "you don't look autistic", and I really wonder what on earth goes on in people's heads when they say these things.

It's so frustrating how teachers punish deaf and blind students- I'm neither, but my nephew was constantly punished for being "too loud". As it turns out, he not only struggles with tone because he's autistic, but he's also hearing impaired and DOESN'T KNOW how loud he's being. I love him so much and it's so frustrating to see that teachers are upset with him :-//

If I were to describe Jessica's voice with one word, I think I'd go with "cozy"

This is probably the first collab with Molly I’ve seen that doesn’t just call her “Blind Girl” in the video title or use her disability as clickbait. it’s so nice to see. Jessica is such a breath of fresh air.

Molly: These retinas are dead and gone. There's not enough fish oil in the world that's gunna revive these retinas. I'm in stitches.

Who else heard “guide dog” as “guy dog” and just rolled with it, cause yeah, that dog looks like a solid guy

I was three and half when my sister who was two and half was found to be legally blind. I remember our parents telling me she was blind. And I was just like um yeah. That's why I lead her everywhere. Parents are slow sometimes.

When I was four I had my eyes dilated for the first time. I am STILL mad that no one told me that the procedure would make it so I couldn't see for awhile because when your four, you think that's forever. I thought these jerks just made everything look like it was melting forever, not for the next three hours. Lying to people just fosters mistrust regardless of age.

I am a straight woman, with no disability and I don't wear vintage clothes. I don't even remember how I end up watching a random video from Jessica's chanel, but I started to find the videos interesting, so I subscribed. Watching her videos made me realise even more that you don't need to be the main audience to be engaged to the cause. It opened my mind to the world of people that I never thought existed, so I love videos like this one.

the talk on medical anxiety after being a disabled child, my feeling all of a sudden feel valid

Totally resonated with Molly when she said people say “You’re too pretty to be blind”. I’ve been told I’m “pretty for a black girl”, so I can see how frustrating and offensive that is. It really is NOT the compliment people think it is!!!

As an overweight person, people don't offer to pray for me, but unsolicited weight advice is constant.

Honestly, I'm not blind, I'm autistic and have pots cfs and other things, but molly's story of how she was diagnosed and teachers and ptsd and panics over 'irrational' things, not believing her and stuff is basically my story word for word. Im so close to tears now because I suddenly realised that I'm not alone, but also that others have been through what I have, so now I feel terrible for her and them

Molly's "they've never seen the disable creatures in real life"cracked me up.

Knowing PTSD is not rational, but PTSD not giving a damn what you know...OMG, yes.

As a nurse, that's 1 thing I don't do, I'll tell you, this is going to hurt..this will be uncomfortable. I find that my patients handle what I'm doing much better than they do with nurses that say this wont hurt a bit. I take the time to explain exactly what I'm going to do before I do it.

When Molly talked about being tested for learning disabilities, it made me think of when I was diagnosed with ADHD (which I actually do have) - my kindergarten teacher wanted to hold me back because I couldn’t sit still, but the district said she couldn’t because my test scores were too high. Ironically, this put my first grade teacher on alert, so she was able to tell my parents that I needed to be tested for a learning disability because clearly, there was something happening there. And, yup, mega case of ADHD over here! Because of a really terrible teacher, a really good teacher was able to help me. I then was denied for an Individualized Education Plan because my test scores were too high, never learned how to study, and had a bunch of trouble the first couple years of college, but hey, I still graduated!

I get the "you're too young to be sick". Um, yeah, disability isn't agist. LOL! Also, I'm older than both of you.

The praying for your healing thing always reminds me... I had a biology teacher who lost a finger, and when he was at the emergency room, a lady came up to him and said "pray to God and your finger will grow back!"

I was one of those “sickly” kids. I had a lot of underlying conditions that were undiagnosed at the time. The office staff at the school always rolled their eyes at me. I will never forget being in the 5th grade and it was a “fun” day right before Christmas break. I went to the office saying my mom needed to be called because I didn’t feel right. The receptionist slammed her hand on the desk, stood up, and yelled “Dammit (my name), today is a fun day. You will go back to class right now.” So, I went back class...where I proceeded to throw up all over my class room floor. My teacher was furious at the receptionist. As was my mom. My mom really learned, as she puts it, her listening lesson. I told her on the way to school that I really didn’t feel good, but because I didn’t have a fever she told me to try and if it got worse I could always call from the office. She didn’t make that mistake again!

Medical trauma is horrible. My disabilities were not apparent as child but my mother died of cancer when I was 11. I still can't enter a hospital without a reaction. When I had surgery I took anti anxiety meds and my sister was able to advocate on my behalf.

Thank you Molly for talking about your medical anxiety. That cognitive dissonance of both being overwhelmed with anxiety, and knowing its not a logical reaction. What I find frustrating sometimes is having others (including medical personelle) trying to convince me to calm down, and that there is nothing to be anxious about. I'm like "I KNOW but this is happening anyways and you are not helping."

The absolute BEST PART of this collab is that it means there are two videos, so we get twice the Molly AND Jessica content this week! #DisabledJoy

Personally as someone with PTSD, I have realized that ptsd doesn't care if its rational or not. It just cares if your safe and will make you react to your safety in ways that aren't rational as a defense mechanism.

ok this is totally unrelated to this video, but in Molly's video Jessica said "my body is useless, but at least I'm gay!" I want merch with this quote on it. I want mugs and shirts, and stickers. I want everything. this is one of the best lines I have heard in my life. because I am gay, and while my body isn't totally useless (by knee has been an evil little poop nugget recently but other than that my body is fine) I have been using my gayness to get through this pandemic so this line just spoke to my soul. please. Jessica I am begging you. this line is just *chef's kiss* perfect! please. please. please, please, please, please please. pleeeeeeeeeeeease!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes, teachers do try but parents, understandably, deny that there might be something going on with their kids :/ for some reason instead of thinking about how to help the kid they seem to hear 'you're doing something wrong' or 'your kid is not normal'

My brother-in-law is quadriplegic and he always gets people reaching out "laying on hands" on him in random locations to "heal" him. Or people thinking he is mentally disabled, and speaking to him in really offensively slow baby talk. He is in his late 30's, working for the FBI and completed college ON HIS OWN. He drives himself to school and work, he volunteers at the VA Hospital and is an amazingly supportive spose to my sister. Disabled isn't UNable.

I get a lot of, "you don't act like a blind person, so you aren't blind, stop trying to take advantage!" 😡 Edit: grammar and autocorrect assassination.

I think that what people working in the medical field need to remember is that when you're a patient, during a consultation you're being brought to a state of physical vulnerability, firstly because the doctor is in a position of power and you're in the position of a child, without a say in the methods, but then also because you realize your body isn't perfect and it will decay and nothing can really be done about that... And it's not a pleasant thought. I hate going to the doctor even for small things because I like to live in my head and I don't like being brought to the physical reality of my vulnerable human body aha

my mother has a genetic chronic illness (cystic fibrosis) and i have mental, learning, and neurological disabilities, including but not limited to ASD, depression, and anxiety. it’s irritating that people don’t take invisible disabilities seriously.. loved this video!!

I’m so glad you two touched on the ptsd subject because I feel like it’s not talked about enough. I was born completely able bodied with no medical issues but my mom has gotten some disastrous medical issues as she’s gotten older and after seeing her fight for her life on life support for like 6 months, I developed ptsd from medical trauma and I go through a lot of those same things. Physically could not love this collab more! Xoxo

Wow opposite! I am learning disabled, but the school kept thinking it was because I couldn't see. Nope, I'm just clumsy and am more comfortable holding books really close to my face.

This collab is best thing that happened today!

This is the collab I've always wanted🥰💕

That thing Molly said about her teachers' influencing in her diagnoses really got to me... as a teacher I always felt torn over mentioning things I observed in my students that I though might need attention, like a kid who never did the reading assignments, I though he might need glasses, but didn't know how to say anything... and then it turned out he needed really thick glasses

Omg, 14:30 is exactly what I've been trying to tell people for years! I'm legally blind and I get the "you don't look blind" comment all the time and people genuinely don't get how insulting that is. I always reply with "Okay, what does blind look like?" and the answers are always the most horrible and unrealistic stereotypes followed by "You should take it as a compliment!", I just don't get why people are so freaking insensitive on this topic but if I commented on their weight or style, or hair that way they'd be enraged. They can change their weight/hair/style/appearance, I can't change my genetic disabilities, so whose comment is really worthless?

I had my second dose of vaccine yesterday, and today, I feel like I have flu with fever, soreness, and so on. This is the best gift the universe could come up with to uplift my spirit. Your two videos combined are almost an hour of pure gold content. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and sore bones 💙

I really wanna know how Jessica does her hair like that with no feeling in her hands and limited functionality in her wrists because I feel like I’ve been at the gym for a whole hour if I even attempt a braid tbh

I have the same Molly eye disease and was diagnosed when I was 6. When she talked about PTSD that made a lot of sense to me, I struggle with the same think but no one gave ever told this was actually due to all the medical stress i ve been to, thanks to talking about it, it was really important to me, definitely bring to my best therapy session haha

I’m still in my diagnostic process (we love being 5 years in without a comprehensive diagnosis) and I really needed this today. Thank you both for sharing your journeys!!

great conversation! i feel like i learned a lot :) i do wanna add on to what molly said about "cures" though, people ABSOLUTELY do try to ""pray away" fatness, and share their oh so amazing miracle cures / snake oil diets, and they don't recognize that it's shitty at all, because when it does come from a good place, it's usually told with the mindset of "oh i'm just worried for your health" which ties into ableism, because of the assumption that fatness is always a thing that will lead to (insert every possible health issue) and that every one of a persons health issues or disabilities will disappear if they just lose weight.

I'VE HAD THAT SO MANY TIMES. Like the "You don't seem......." or the "you don't act/sound like....." which is just??????? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT AND I DO????? btw Thank you Jessica for collabing with Molly so I can follow her.

As a medical student, I immensely appreciate the perspective I gain from hearing y'all's stories. Hopefully I can be a better doctor to my future patients.

Jessica's videos helped my sister get diagnosed with Eds.. I kept helping and pushing with her to get to the right doctor who was like 👍💯 this is eds how has no one caught this yet!

Thank you, Jessica and Molly! I am disabled myself (mild cerebral palsy) and I have also experienced adults brushing off my disability (they saw it as laziness, an excuse etc.) It can be really difficult. I'm doing my PhD in creative writing and disability studies now, so I'm reading a lot about disabilities I didn't have much knowledge of previously, but also about our history- the eugenics, the institutions, all of that. It's been incredibly draining and upsetting to read. I read about the Ashley Treatment recently, which I won't go into here, but I wondered if you knew about it? I have to keep reminding myself to take breaks and step away from it for a bit so I don't spiral, and your content is so uplifting and affirming that it helps! ❤

The colab of a century!!!

MY TWO FAVE PEOPLE YAYYY

What Molly said at 10:37 hits so close to home! In the months before I was diagnosed with anxiety, I knew my fears were irrational but that didn't stop me from having panic attacks. And it was awful having people speak as if I were a "lunatic" when I'd tell them "I know this isn't real, I don't need you to tell me that, I need a different sort of help". I hardly ever see people mention that, I'm glad Molly did

You're both such lovely people, so happy this happened!! :)

The comments around representing the community really hit home for me. I'm experiencing hearing loss, and I'm a gay woman, and I've never really found a place in either the deaf/HOH community or the LGBTQ community until recently. Jessica and Claudia definitely helped me become more confident in my identity. And Molly, of course, is just awesome. Thank you for an amazing collab!!

Hearing Molly's struggle with medical PTSD has made me grateful that my medical issues when I was younger lead to immunity rather than trauma.

My grandmother had severe medical trauma and was terrified of doctors. When she was very young, like maybe 4 or 5, her parents invited a friend who was a doctor over for dinner. My grandmother started choking on her food. This was before they invented the heimlich maneuver and the doctor wasn't able to get the food out of her airway, so he had to do an emergency tacheostomy with household objects (they do this on TV a lot with a pen or straw). So that doctor actually saved her life, but gave her a life-long phobia of doctors. She ultimately died of cancer in her 80s, which is a good long life but it might have been longer except she refused treatment because of the medical trauma of having a doctor cut her throat open while fully conscious as a little girl.

The part about how social media helps so much people who are marginalized find a community resonated a lot with me! Social media has helped me so much to understand my anxiety and other aspects of mental illness that I never would have known otherwise!

Thank you for talking about the anxiety about your disability. I haven’t been diagnosed with PTSD, but I have the same anxiety with my disability. Anytime I’m being taken care of and I get hurt, I get an anxiety attack. When my chronic pain gets really bad, I start crying. Even though my pain is chronic, I am terrified of being hurt more.

Marvel wishes their crossovers were this iconic Real talk though, I'm so glad Molly talked about her PTSD. I'd never considered that the psychological stress of disability/chronic illness could manifest as PTSD. It's such a valuable perspective to hear as a med student, and they really don't teach us about this stuff in med school.

No way!!! This is the best collaboration ever!!! I love Molly and you so much!!! 💗

Omg, I LOVE what Molly said about the "can I pray for you" thing!! YES, PREACH

"my retina is dead and gone!" 😂

Molly, the PTSD from medical trauma can be treated over time. When I was 3-4 years old in China, I tripped and cracked my head open. In China there are still a lot of paranoia surrounding opioid use and painkiller use from the Opium wars, so the use of painkillers isn't a normal widespread practice in China. That night, in the ER, I was held down by 4-5 male nurses and my mom while the doctor gave me 4 stitches on my head. No anesthesia of any kind. I had PTSD from that ever since not only as nightmares, but whenever I had to get a shot, or even go to the hospital. At age 20, I had to get hormone pills, and that requires a blood test once a year, sometimes twice a year. Over time, it desensitized me to the hospital, needles, and getting shots. Now I can even watch as the nurse sticks the needle into my arm to draw blood. It can be treated, it just takes time. :)

You're right molly! Jessica is HILARIOUS. Honestly I love her.

this collab alone is enough to save us all. so happy it’s finally become a thing😭🥰

I wonder if Martina from Eat Your Kimchi/Simon and Martina would be willing to chat with you, she also has EDS and has talked about her life with it on YT. I don't mean to veer off track from this wonderful interview but the thought popped into my head while watching it and I wanted to get it out before I forgot.

It was nice to hear people I look up to talk about PTSD surrounding medical situations. We are OSDD and have PTSD because of the fact that we had to go through surgeries since being a baby and it heavily messed with us. We personally had to deal with a doctor tell us we were lucky to only be depressed and anxious after what we went through(we weren't diagnosed or aware of the PTSD and each other). Which ended up setting us back in the long run on accepting we have PTSD.

I will admit several years ago when I found this channel and Molly as well I was very unexposed. I had never heard a deaf person with such a clear speaking voice or met a blind person who was into fashion. And it’s so clear now how and why these things can and do exist but they’re not shown in media, people are underexposed. As I’ve begun my own disability journey with my undiagnosed chronic pain I’ve learned how unintentionally ableist I was, and often with the best of intentions. Which is why channels like these are so valuable, not only to the people who share their experiences (as finding a community is invaluable) but to people who don’t. It’s an unfortunately rare view into real people’s lives. So thank you both so much for everything you do. Lots of love to you both and stay safe. 💚

Molly, I especially appreciate your discussion about your PTSD vs logic. It’s so important to bring awareness to the fact that mental illness is mentionable and manageable, but it doesn’t always follow logical pathways. I can’t even count the number of times someone has told me to just “get over” my panic attacks.

I really love the discussion around learning disabilities and how seriously the conversation was tackled. Often those with learning disability get watered down and not taken seriously I think it’s ablism to use the term “learning difficulties” as a difficulty is something to be fixed and this is a disability that effects everything I do my memory my temperament how I function

I love when they brought up the word “hear” and “see” and how they can be used! I study languages and one of them is sign language :) When you are communicating to a non native English speaker you have to realize that the translation for “I see” and “I heard” isn’t actually looking with your eyes or seeing something, “See” becomes ‘understand’ and “heard” becomes ‘to know’. The English language can be very difficult for some people because they certain phrases literal. Sign language has helped me not be so wordy and to make my speech clearer and easier to understand while speaking :)

The thing about not being able to communicate with able bodied adults is exactly why I always listen to my daughter straight away. It took me my entire life for anyone to listen to me, so I always listen to children and advocate for them.

This video made me think about how a lot of people who get labeled as weird, eccentric, freaks, etc tend to have a certain kinship with other people who have had that experience even of they don't necessarily belong to the same community. For example, I'm neurodivergent and queer and have been called weird or "unique" since I was very young and I find that it has made me feel close to the disabled community and poc even tho I don't belong to those groups simply because I know our experiences have similarities and if someone can understand me, it would be them. I know many of my friends feel the same and I find this phenomena very interesting. Food for thought I suppose.

This is the best collab that could have ever happened. Period.

Thank you so much for this, it was a delight to watch! I agree so much with the bit about being told 'it doesn't hurt' when it will. Even as someone who does not have an extensive medical history, I now do not believe any medical professional when they say that. It always hurts. ALWAYS. Sometimes less than other times, but if you stick a pointy thing far enough into my arm for it to bleed, I would be more concerned if it DIDN'T hurt. Dear medical professionals, please allow people, including children, to be brave enough to know it will/might hurt and do it anyway. Don't gaslight us, even if you mean well.

My sister is an Intervention Specialist (aka a special education teacher) in an elementary school and she told me, years ago, that there was a new student who used had hearing aids and used crutches, due to clubbed feet. They put him in the special education classes but my sister and other ISes quickly realized the student did not have any learning disabilities or cognitive delays and was only placed in their class because he had hearing aids and required crutches. Automatic assumption, based on those physical things, that he needed an Intervention Specialist. He only required accommodation for his hearing issues.

I remember, in grade school, constantly going to the nurse because my stomach hurt. The nurse told my mom that she thought it was just anxiety. This was partially true, one of my friends had just died of cancer and my grandmother had just passed, both when I was about 8. But I have MAJOR upper digestive tract issues that weren't diagnosed until I was in my 20s. When I was 9-10ish, I started experiencing my first visual hallucinations. I don't remember ever NOT having auditory hallucinations, but I thought everyone heard things. I finally got up the courage to tell my mom when I was 11-12ish, and she just mocked and made fun of me. I finally got her to take me to a psychiatrist when I was 13, who told me I had a somatoform disorder and restless leg syndrome. I don't have either of those things. I have CPTSD, generalized and social anxiety, clinical depression, and schizophrenia, among other psychiatric illnesses. I've been told that I have an eating disorder- specifically bulimia when in reality I have gastroparesis and cyclical vomiting syndrome. I was told that my heart problems were purely from anxiety when I have a serious heart defect that is potentially fatal. I've been told that I fake my seizures when I have brain damage from a terrible head injury as a child that left me with multiple, rare forms of epilepsy. I was told that I was faking not being able to walk because it was too painful. I was told I was faking my back pain when in reality I had survived an attempt on my life that left me with a hairline fracture in one of my vertebrae and multiple herniated discs. I was told FOR YEARS that I was malingering in order to obtain prescription opiates- even though I have had multiple friends die from opiate overdoses, both intentionally and unintentionally, and that opiates terrify me. In reality, I had developed the most severe pain disorder known to medicine called CRPS. I still suffer with it to this day and it requires me to take opiates daily, for which I experience constant stigma both from other people and from medical "professionals". I've never met anyone with a disability or serious illness that doesn't have medical trauma. I almost died in 2018 after vomiting blood for over a week after my esophagus ruptured, as it's pretty much all scar tissue because of stomach acid. I absolutely refused to go to the hospital. I had a stroke in February of this year (I'm only 31, there's no real decent answer as to why I had one). Instead of going to the hospital, I took a couple Xanax and went back to bed. I'm now blind in my left eye and have motor function issues on the left side of my body. Medical trauma isn't just painful in terms of trauma, but it's incredibly dangerous in that many people with medical trauma refuse to visit certain doctors, specialists, or the ER despite how much danger they're in. For me, I refuse to deal with the ER. I've experienced so much hate, mockery, name-calling, even straight-up physical abuse from the doctors and nurses there. I remember I got drugged at a drag bar that I was at with my best friend. I was only just relearning how to walk at that time and had a fentanyl patch on to help manage the CRPS pain and the pain from the atrophy in my legs. I remember falling out of my wheelchair, and that's it. Apparently, I was laid out on the sidewalk outside the bar with my best friend watching over me, waiting for the paramedics to arrive. I woke up briefly in the ambulance when they ripped off my fentanyl patch. It's such a vital thing that I NEEDED to have on, so I feel like a part of me became alarmed and panicked which brought me back to consciousness. Didn't matter though, because after yelling "What the hell are you doing? I need that!" they injected me with some sort of sedative and I passed back out. I woke up in the ER. What woke me up was a painful snap in my finger. A male nurse was standing above me and was pushing my fingers and wrist backward as hard as he could. He had this sadistic smile on his face. I think he thought I was some drug addict or drunk and wouldn't remember, or if I did, wouldn't be credible enough to the police. I immediately sat up and screamed bloody murder. Then I pointed at every nurse I could see and yelled "This man just assaulted me and broke my fingers! And you're a witness, you're a witness, you're a witness, and you're a witness!". God, it still makes me so angry. Security pulled me out of my bed, and I guess he thought I was dragging my feet because I couldn't walk without crutches or canes, so he just pulled me by my torso (nearly ripping out my PICC line) into the lobby and threw me into the arms of my two best friends. I tried so hard to press charges. But I couldn't get the bloody nurse's name.

Molly's story at 10:47 hit me hard I had cancer when i was still an infant, and I've heard stories of some of this things that had to happen to help and I realize now that, even though I can't remember it, it probably plays a big part in my fear of doctors and medical settings. I have current disabilities(potentially also due to that) and the thought of going to a doctor to even try to get help terrifies me

I’ve just noticed but.. Molly has such beautiful eyes. 😄

Just echoing the others saying thanks for the medical trauma discussion. I've finally been diagnosed with anxiety after dealing with it since I was a teenager. I realise now that a big part of it is medical trauma now that I know that's a thing, but it's so hard for me to accept/deal with it because it's not "official". I'm trying to get therapy for it but until then just hearing others talk about it makes me feel so much better and less alone!

Jessica, your hair is fabulous! I love this! Thank you for this video. It's so important to listen to our children when they tell us something is wrong.

I started to lose my hearing six months ago (I’m 22) and I have never heard it said better. It does feel like you’re disappearing. It’s not immediately clear that you can’t hear people, it feels like you can’t reach people and they can’t reach you. Even now that I know it’s my hearing (47% hearing left) it’s still extremely scary sometimes!

Jessica, can you please tell us about your experience with lip reading regarding different accents or dialects? 🦄

I have strabismus and nystagmus and molly is the first person I’ve met or seen on the internet who has them too!

You guys actually made me understand something today; why I get so frustrated and impatient with vets when they keep saying "oh it's ok we don't think there's anything major wrong with your pet", and I'm standing there like "No, they have symptoms, they are not ok and you need to figure out why!" Because as a kid I felt like I was constantly in and out of hospital/clinic/whatever and I don't want my poor babies to have to go through that stress. Figure it out, dummies! That's what I pay you for! Not to tell me "calming" half-truths!

The crossover I didn't know I needed until now 💕

I'm just a -5 glasses wearer, but I remember being told by my parents that I was wrong when I told them I couldn't see. That was before I started school. I didn't get glasses until nearly the end on second grade. Luckily I had a teacher that took me to the nurse and demanded that I get an eye exam.

Molly is such a great communicator!

I've been waiting for this collab for so long!

I'm an ESL teacher, I have ADHD, EDS and I'm on the spectrum. Sometimes it sucks but when I can help my students by understanding them because of my struggles it feels like it's worth something. If you're a teacher, be compassionate, even at uni level I've had teachers not understand any of my needs and even argue against them to the point they had me in tears. Thank you for this wonderful collab.

*crossovers I've anxiously been awaiting but never expected to actually happen*

Ive been waiting for this

"i wish that the doctors had been honest with my daughter when things were gonna hurt" woooow that sentence alone tells a story and I can totally see how it fucks someone up.

Thank you both for sharing your stories and experiences with us you lovely people 💖

I got sooo exited when I got the notification! I’m subscribed to you both and it was so hard to decide which video to watch first😅

When they say “if your from ___’s channel” but you’re from both channels 😂

I'm not fully deaf or fully blind but I do have low vision and hearing and going through childhood was definitely difficult. Especially the feeling of being othered. I remember having to put my chair a few feet from the whiteboard so I could take notes while everyone else was sitting in their normal seats. The teachers thankfully knew I was just low sighted and didn't have learning disabilities when I was in grade school. But when I got to college unfortunately the professors were much less understanding. It became incredibly frustrating to have to defend myself constantly, even though I was an adult by that point. One teacher actually told me, "I don't give special treatment" when I asked for an extension on homework since it took me so much longer to be able to do anything - low vision makes things harder to do. I was so frustrated by her that I had to go to my school's disability center and have special papers printed that COMMANDED her to accommodate me. And even then she refused. So the disability department had to intervene again and threaten to cite her with violating my rights as a disabled person for her to finally comply. It's a never ending set of walls that you have to break through but it does make your stronger and more resilient in the long run.

The collab I've been waiting for

Two of my favorite people collabing! What a gift! The sheer light and positivity you both exude is an absolute treasure.

I’m so early yay! Best collab ever!!!

Yes! Thanks for making great content all the time :)

FINALLYYYYYY YAAAAAY!!!!! 💕💕💕💕💕