The ocularist gave me a lectue which basically came down to blah blah normal blah blah passing blah blah *whispery shame voice* "No one should know."
My reply was I know what passing is, I don't care about normal, and everybody knows already, because I'm blogging about it.
The ocularist also sometimes throws in lines like "Looking normal helps you get jobs easier" and other bull. It wouldn't make me quite so crazy except the speech is delivered in a total patronizing tone that the able-bodied normal person has to explain these basic concepts to the disabled person, even though the ocularist knows I hae had prosthetics since I was 14, and I'm not stupid because I did manage to graduate from MIT.
Sorry, it still gets my righteous indignation going when I remember the lecture.
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My reply was I know what passing is, I don't care about normal, and everybody knows already, because I'm blogging about it.
The ocularist also sometimes throws in lines like "Looking normal helps you get jobs easier" and other bull. It wouldn't make me quite so crazy except the speech is delivered in a total patronizing tone that the able-bodied normal person has to explain these basic concepts to the disabled person, even though the ocularist knows I hae had prosthetics since I was 14, and I'm not stupid because I did manage to graduate from MIT.
Sorry, it still gets my righteous indignation going when I remember the lecture.