Keep the Cape: Invisible Disabilities Are Not Superpowers | Caitlin Graves | TEDxAustinCollege

[JinxedG]

This was a fantastic speech and deserves more praise! Thank you, Caitlin!

[buffienguyen]

Thank you for the talk. I found it very informative and comforting.
Also I feel like some of the negative comments under this talk are people who have not watched the video in full.

[asimovstarling]

I have all of her symptoms plus a few. Aspergers syndrome, ADHD, mildly bipolar, asthma, astigmatism in both eyes and of different types too with extreme light sensitivity in both and a slight color blindness of blue green in the right eye, irritated bowl syndrome, partial deafness, acid reflex, hemochromatosis, periodic loss of balance, trans, demi, PTSD from being a survivor of abuse, clinical depression, night terrors, small lungs and super dense but also brittle bones (I sink even in salt water.) and the list goes on and on. and yet to everyone around me I'm just a big strong brute who they don't even give a second glance.

[phantumbelly]

I think that it’s a subjective speech and that if a disabled person believes their disability is a super power so what maybe it is. Think Asperger’s that don’t want cured etc. this generation needs to stop trying to control the narrative for everyone and let others simply be