When I was raising Isaiah, I noticed that there was
something different about him at 18 months. Trying to communicate that to my family and my religious community
came with a lot of advice. You need to pray harder. You need to believe God for his healing. as a Christian Black woman, sometimes the comments I received really weighed on me. I thought I prayed over my child, so what did I do wrong? In the Black community, when you think about terms like disability
and mental health, we don't talk a
bout it
in the same way that it's talked about in mainstream society. There is this unfortunate pattern
of understanding or reaction to disability and mental illness
that sees it as a curse and sees it as something to
be, you know, kept out there.
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