a friend of mine who is not disabled was trying to understand what I meant about not wanting to send conflicting messages the parallel she came up with was if she is walking down the street and she realises she is walking in the wrong direction and she has to double back on herself turn around and go back the way she has come then she will slap her head hand-on-hip play-act for the purposes of everyone watching to explain herself we all want to project a consistent story and as soon as we do not project consistency we become a threat a danger
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a friend of mine who is not disabled was trying to understand what I meant about not wanting to send conflicting messages the parallel she came up with was if she is walking down the street and she realises she is walking in the wrong direction and she has to double back on herself turn around and go back the way she has come then she will slap her head hand-on-hip play-act for the purposes of everyone watching to explain herself we all want to project a consistent story and as soon as we do not project consistency we become a threat a danger