If You’re a Sick Person Who Is Scared to Post...

If you post about sickness… no one will hire you.

Even if my body of work shows the opposite of my body.

We should choose hires based off how they overcome inevitable hardships in life, and NOT consider them a liability for doing so…. But that’s not how capitalism by convenience works.

Let me preface: Everyone is going to approach their business or career differently. But in all the years of working in my personal fields, and all the times I let others down because an operation interrupted or a complication occurred… I can say with evidence and emphasis that I showed up more than I ever dropped out, “considering”. And considering how many surgeries I’ve had per year, and how little allotment for recovery, and how many other organs issues along the way (let alone the fact we have had a lot of food and financial insecurity with no safety nets, like so many others Also experience out there): Why wouldn’t we call that a success story?

But in any field that demands perfection, it’s scribed in scarlet. No matter how much we might sweetly assure otherwise, any one who’s lived in the artistic world knows for a fact that we don’t hire liabilities.

If someone climbed up the same hill as another, but one had fifty extra pounds of bricks upon their back: which athlete would you call upon in the end?

Many athletes and artists and activists battle action amid the added burden of chronic-something everyday. Yet… they’re told they’re less while they’re literally carrying “more”.

Is your heart broken reading and imagining that climb?

I sort of hope it is. I hope a human in HR that needs to see this does, and remembers that metaphor (and gives me a job. Just kidding). Mostly, I hope someone carrying added bricks up the hill feels heard here… even if few in the world will easily do so. We aren’t all our chronic identity… But it IS a full time job regardless, and we should be respected for doing double, not penalized.

If you’re a sick person who is scared to post your reality on any platform because your platform will be taken away:

Your fear is REAL…

Because the real world really is that way.

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