MARCY ROSE / AL / CHESHIRE

19, a thing. I’m nothing and everything. I exist beyond the scope of your imagination. I exist beneath your comprehension. I’m a therian paradox.I’m lightskinned “racially ambiguous” and mixed black. This is why I label myself this way. I am moderately physically disabled and moderately cognitively disabled. This is what I mean by that.I have a speech impediment that affects my articulation and fluency. Don’t make fun of typos in my writing. Friends get a warning. Strangers will be blocked.

I used to have a longer script here but I call myself black mixed because I grew up black. I was accepted by other black people as black and I was rejected by white people as white. White people who called me white still treated me differently for not being white.I, however, grew up with a white family. I am lightskinned. I grew up in the US, and my ancestors have lived in the US for generations. For these reasons I experience more privilege than other black people nationally and globally.

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My mobility is limited. I have the ability to walk, but not for long periods of time. Doing so causes me extreme fatigue, soreness for an extended period of time, and in a lot of cases, immediate pain in my joints. Even resting I experience these symptoms. This affects my physical activity.I have moderate cognitive disability, which affects things like my memory, judgement, attention, language comprehension, and mood. This can affect my ability to participate in a conversation. Sometimes I’ll leave one or take a break from one because of this.

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