Katie McAlister > Recent Status Updates

“Are big butts a cerebral palsy thing? You know, from all the limping we have to do? Someone get Nancy Drew on the case.”

“… People choose not to deal with disability because deep down they know it will happen to them. It’s like aging… We can’t bear to see what’s eventually coming for us. We’ll do anything to delay the inevitable. Lotions, potions, bring it on baby. When people see someone disabled, the illusion is punctured.”

“I don’t see myself on screens, and I also don’t see other disabled people around me in real life… You can’t measure the psychic toll exacted on someone when they’ve never interacted with a single person who looks and acts like them. Why don’t people care about disabled people? How am I supposed to care about myself when no one else does?”

“In school, I was the only disabled kid, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was engaging in some kind of able-bodied cosplay. Constantly surrounded by people whose lives looked nothing like mine…”

“There’s no guide on how to be an adult with CP. You’re just kinda set out to pasture.”

“I shut my eyes and thought about time. In the past… there was literally an inexhaustible amount of time. Like a huge reservoir, filled to the very brim… But now was different. Time, I knew, was limited. And as I aged, considering time had even greater implications. Time, no matter what, ticked away, ceaselessly.”

“Cerebral palsy is my Regina George.”

“Having cerebral palsy and a limp means people love to inquire about my well-being… I work very hard to appear palatable, easy to digest, the crostini of disability.”

“My brain, which previously had been an unsafe neighborhood to walk around in at night, had carved out a nice space for him when I wasn’t looking.”

“All that you touch, you change/ All that you change changes you/ The only lasting truth is change/ God is change.”