10-21-2023, 09:33 AM
This is very fine (coming to it in an edited form). There may be a little disconnect between the last two stanzas and that which goes before... or maybe not.
No stigma is quite so deep as the invisible one we know is there... and isn't. People look away from the disabled, not because they're embarrassed, but because they feel the pain and don't think that feeling does them credit (spoiler: it does). And the disabled think they're being stigmatized when it's only normal hearts hiding to avoid stigmatizing them.
No stigma is quite so deep as the invisible one we know is there... and isn't. People look away from the disabled, not because they're embarrassed, but because they feel the pain and don't think that feeling does them credit (spoiler: it does). And the disabled think they're being stigmatized when it's only normal hearts hiding to avoid stigmatizing them.
Non-practicing atheist