When Your Superpower Is Being Invisible

When your superpower is being invisible: Lived Experience of Disability. An invisible disability is a life-altering condition.

1 in 7 of the UK’s population have an invisible disability – we are everywhere, you just don’t know it, because our superpower is being invisible”.

It was my absolute pleasure to write this article for Everyday Magazine, ‘When your superpower is being invisible: Lived Experience of Disability.

“This is in no way a bash the NHS, or the hardworking social worker’s piece, this is my lived experience of invisible disability, the services who are working to support me. And the ways that they don’t quite work in the way that the Social Care Institute of Excellence had in mind. An invisible disability is a life-altering condition that is not apparent just by looking at someone. Guess what? This covers 1 in 7 of the UK’s population – so we are everywhere, you just don’t know it, because our superpower is being invisible”.

When Your Superpower Is Being Invisible: Lived Experience of Disability — The Everyday