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Dear Grace Q & A: How do I cope with tough conversations at festive events?
Dear Grace Q & A: How do I cope with difficult people in my life, during festive times? Like relations at family events who ask invasive questions about my health/weight/relationships. Or colleagues at the office party where there are social expectations to socialise in a certain, ablest, neurotypical way. Or when people start getting drunk and someone says something ablest and all the non-disabled people just look away from me (the only disabled person in the room). I’m dreading it, help! Dear Dreading-It, Thank you for being brave enough to share your question in this column, I am sure you are not alone in dreading the holiday season when it…