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Why invisible disabilities challenge our understanding of legitimacy

My chronic pain is invisible and I look completely normal, so when I use disabled parking everyone stares at me like I am stealing something that does not belong to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The tyranny of appearance-based assumptions forces a constant performance of either wellness or visible suffering.

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