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When communication accommodations feel like erasure

My cerebral palsy affects my speech and my girlfriend sometimes finishes my sentences, and I don't know if she's being helpful or if it makes me feel invisible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The space between assistance and assumption contains the difference between being helped and being silenced.

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