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Taking a month away from instagram felt impossible, but as I quickly learned, a lot of good came out of stepping back from social media. Around the same time, Emmett was also realising he was gay, but thought that to be both disabled and queer was impossible, and that his sexuality would always remain theoretical, a secret. That sense of rejection from his own community worsened again when he was sent to a boarding school for children with disabilities. It was really striking for me when people took my decision as a sort of betrayal to the cause, like I’d let down the disabled community. Please familiarise yourself with our community guidelines to ensure that our community remains a safe and inclusive space for all.

Growing up in South East London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay.I find it makes me both sad, and incredibly angry that anyone can have thoughts such as these, let alone voice them out loud, in the age in which we live. To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page. Emmett did not belong anywhere, excluded by other disabled because he was gay, and by other gay people because he was disabled. It sounds naive now but it hadn’t even occurred to me that there were other ways to be and that I could embrace being disabled as an identity.

My son also was bullied because he was quieter, sensitive and not sporty but did not tell us so came out of school with a stammer and a stoop. This memoir put me through many big emotions, not least anger at how little some things have changed. When the 'miracle' doesn't occur, Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire.He comes out to his mum, who is sweetly welcoming and comforting, just after his GCSE year at school. Beware self-help gurus and other musings about personal development and self-improvement that we're all susceptible to in January.

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