I think everyone should read this wonderful article by Francesca Martinez. In it, she explains how she learned how to overcome societal pressures to conform, and how capitalism demands that everyone adheres to it’s narrow definition of ‘norma’. She explains how he used to, as a person with cp, feel the need to hide her wobble, but now she sees getting away from oppressive notions of normality as a form of civil disobedience. I could not agree more; it is what I try to do. We must all embrace ourselves and our diversity; we must overcome pressures to conform. We are constantly told we are wrong or strange by the right-wing press and by capitalists; but they are wrong. We are normal. As martinez puts it, ”Embrace your body, whatever shape it is and however it works, because it gives you this wonderful, crazy, beautiful, fleeting experience called life.” Please go read.