text: So, what is pride? It is used as a terribly negative word but is it totally bad? Is it arrogance or is it self esteem?
  I think it is a bit of both. I don't think I have a high opinion of myself, but I do need to have some self esteem because its something I've had to fight for many years to achieve. I certainly don't think of myself as any better than anyone else or have a high opinion of myself, but I do want to be seen as a valid person and woman in society. I think a bit of angry arrogance has helped me survive my childhood and times in my adult life, so I don't think its all bad. My experience with you though, ultimately showed me that my validity when I'm in a wheelchair is less than if I'd been standing up. How dreadful. I know its your (and many other peoples) prejudice and ignorance and not my own personal opinion of people in wheelchairs, but it blights my opinion of myself, because whether I like it or not, my history has made me a person that validates myself through other people. It's something I fight to change, and its slowly happening, but not soon enough.
  One day soon, I will have to get in that wheelchair and on the bus into town. I want all the wonderful positive experiences my wheelchair will bring to my social life, but I'm dreading that day too. Dreading that bus journey being looked at with people lowering their gaze to their laps as they are as embarrassed having to look at me too. I'm dreading people talking down to me, as I struggle enough to feel valid when I'm standing up!
  Most of all though, I'm dreading meeting another YOU, you ignorant woman, who put me down and treated me like a dog, in front of my friend.
  
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