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This blogger's open letter to a woman who shamed her for using a disabled toilet is going viral
SAMANTHA CLEASBY DOESN’T use a wheelchair, nor does she have any visible issues with her arms or legs. This may have been the reason a woman tutted at her when she went to use a disabled toilet recently.
But what the woman didn’t know, is that Cleasby was diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease in 2003, and had a colectomy and illeostomy in 2013. As a result, she had no colon, uses a colostomy bag, and sometimes has to rush to any available toilet.
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The recent encounter of a woman tutting at her for using the disabled facilities prompted the blogger to write and open letter on her website, So Bad Ass, which is now going viral as a strong lesson in calling judgement.
She goes on to say that she presumes the woman assumed she was a ‘lazy cow’ or an ‘inconsiderate bitch’ using something she wasn’t entitled to.
Cleasby says she doesn’t like having to use the disabled toilets, due to dealing with such incidents as this.
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She also points out that a supermarket worker laughed at the noise she made in the cubicle, but she gets it, “since I had a pouch made from my small intestine because my disease ridden colon was removed during surgery, the noise I make when I defecate is hilariously loud. It’s comedic in it’s volume”.
“Perhaps you both could have shown a little empathy, a little compassion, a little understanding”, she finishes up. ”Poo is funny. Disability is confusing. But humanity and care for fellow human beings is a choice”.
Read the whole letter over on So Bad Ass.
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