Patricia (she/her), a 23-year-old trans woman from Romania now living in Belgium. You can read more about her in this article: "Intersecting paths: Perspectives from queer youth with disabilities."
(For how i crafted these quotes, see What i changed in survey-takers' responses and What i didn't change.)
Blindness
"I find it much easier to talk to nonbinary adults, and the same with disabled adults (I'm almost entirely blind). Able-bodied people just don't get it at all."
Compromised immune system
"Please make stuff more accessible. I'm immunocompromised and now nobody is wearing masks and things are a LOT more stressful."
Depression
"I don't have depression because I'm queer; I have depression because of a chemical imbalance, and it is exacerbated by the world not accepting my queerness.
"And absolutely it's easier to talk to someone who is queer with mental illness--but that's almost all of us anyway."
Mental illness
"Often I felt overly anxious to share with adults any information about my mental illness or disability because I was told that my sexuality WAS a mental illness or was a result OF it. Very often I would only tell a group one or the other but very rarely both because I feared a false 'diagnosis' in their head."
"mental illness has nothing to do with my identity as queer."
