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To me, it means that I’m more than my myasthenia gravis. I’m more than this disability that halts my ability to function. I can push past it some days. Some days I can’t. But that doesn’t stop me from being me. I’m still Libby. I’m still Liberty. It just means that I have a little bit more difficulty in doing things. It doesn’t mean that I can just… that doesn’t mean I have to stop. It just means that I just got to work a little bit harder to do something.
I do want to mention that it is fun to do all this stuff even though it’s difficult for me. Doing this stuff with all the hard work that I put into it to break some of these habits and to find ways to push past or manage my myasthenia gravis, while doing these stressful things is very difficult. It can be fun because you make a lot of friends and you have people who can support you even though they don’t know exactly what you’re going through.
I wish the world would kind of acknowledge that it is difficult with this because there are some people who won’t believe me just because it’s an invisible disability. They treat me like a normal person who can lift like 10 to 30 lbs when I just can’t. I don’t want to be treated differently, but it kind of has to be that way because I can’t do certain things that people with a healthy body can. A normal person could probably lift a milk gallon without any troubles where I struggle to even pick it up out of the car sometimes. I kind of wish the world would understand that it’s difficult moving because I sometimes have trouble moving fast or moving my legs, especially in extreme weather.
My name is Liberty, and I’m More Than MG.
