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Living with Narcolepsy: Award Winning Speech on Fear, Secrets, and Service Dogs | Your Wake Up Call

Have you ever felt invisible until something about you changed visually? The moment I sat in my Whill c2 powerchair, I suddenly became visible to strangers. It stings when someone offers me help now - not because of them, but for HER: the version of me who spent decades with undiagnosed symptoms, clutching supermarket shelves with cold sweat running down her face while people’s eyes avoided her at any cost. Worse still, being called a liar and “not disabled.” whenever I do eventually garner some