The day I was discharged, I found the spaces that had once welcomed me unthinkingly, now confronted me with barriers that felt insurmountable. Doors I had previously breezed through, now seemed to scoff at my attempt to traverse them. In the blink of an eye, my perspective shifted, the world as I knew it irrevocably altered. It was the revelation that, while I was privileged to have been oblivious to these challenges in the past, I should have been aware and proactive much earlier. My experience is not an isolated one, one in four people are Disabled, and 80% of disabilities are acquired between the ages of 18 and 64

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