“One of the biggest things that I realized when my disability first started is there was just so much that I had to learn. I had no idea what barriers were even issues. The only way I became aware was by becoming disabled,” Pol says.

And if most of us don’t grasp disability until we experience it ourselves or through loved ones, society is not going to change.

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