Learning it's okay to acknowledge you have a disability

For the past few years, I've been struggling to acknowledge that I have a disability. It's not something new. I've grown up this way. I just never called it a disability because I always thought, "Well, it could be worse," or "It's not as bad as others have it". When I was about two, my parents found out I was born with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (now referred to as juvenile idiopathic…