if bruce springsteen was a horse he would be called bruce springsteed and he'd have a song called prancing in the dark
It's an easy mindset to fall into, especially when you're first diagnosed, but I need everyone to know that just because your illness or disability is lifelong, it doesn't mean that your life is always going to be bad. I just passed my 8 year anniversary of getting diagnosed, and tonight I baked a batch of my favorite chocolate chip cookies sitting on the kitchen counter while my wonderful girlfriend handed me the ingredients. Disability does not doom you to misery and isolation forever.







