11540 - An open letter to those designing our health and disability systems
And yet, somehow, I exist in a strange gap inside the Australian system: Too disabled to function without support. Not disabled enough to receive it.
I have spent the last two years learning there is very little space in our systems for women like me. Women who are still trying to work, to parent, to contribute. They’re still trying to hold onto some version of the life they had before trauma rearranged everything.