As I’ve been thinking about what I want to write this week, one truth keeps hitting me: people usually mean well. They really do. But meaning well isn’t the same as getting it right. And in the world of disability, that gap between intention and understanding? That’s exactly where cultural competency lives-or doesn’t.

I named this blog Blind People Don’t Mingle after noticing a pattern in my own life and naming it honestly in my first post, you can read it here: First Blog Post. It wasn’t meant to be literal-it was meant to capture a disconnect.

I went to vote this week. That sentence should feel simple, ordinary, almost boring. It should not come with a story. But here we are.

Every February for the last few years I’ve said I’m done writing about JDAIM but I can’t seem to not address it.

Cruises are marketed as easy. Everything is contained, everything is planned, everything is designed for comfort and leisure. And yet one of the most basic human needs - using the bathroom - has once again become an exercise in strategy, guesswork, and unnecessary stress.

It is my hope that in the coming year, disability will be recognized as a natural part of the human condition.