"It's that they make lemonade out of lemons. Instead of looking at what's hard about it, they look at how to transform your disability into something beautiful, something intimate, something fun, something other than what it is...(because it's not any of those things)... but it can be experienced differently if you have the right person with you."

In part 2 of our "Pity & Perception" conversation we talk through the delicate dynamics of friendships and what it means to us to feel fully seen, considered, and included.

- Even friends get it wrong - Navigating the stories of those closest to us

- The Complexity of Emotional Reactions

- Feeling Included vs. Excluded

- The Grief of Limitations

- The Importance of Community

- Finding Joy in Difficult Situations

- Creating Intimacy Through Shared Experiences

"Don't we always go through life with our story just ready to slap it on whoever's in front of us? And then just like that we're up and running with that story." Angelique and Samantha dive a deeper into a brief encounter with a stranger that left Anqelique stung by the disconnect between how she sees herself and how he reacted to her disability that we discussed in the episode "Pity & Perspective-Pt 1"

We decided we are pro-cussing because sometimes it's better out than in and it can put that rage to good use.