The world loves a neat, predictable shape. It builds itself around squares—square holes, square boxes, square expectations. But what happens when you’re a polygon, a shape that doesn’t quite fit? You push, twist, and try to slot yourself into spaces never designed for you. Sometimes, you succeed through sheer determination. Other times, you realize that no amount of effort will make the edges align.
For me, this isn’t just about accessibility—it’s about everything. It’s about the expectations society places on how we should move, think, and exist. It’s the assumptions people make about what we can and can’t do. It’s the frustration of constantly bending the world to work for you, rather than it naturally making space.
There’s a creative side to this battle. I’ve become an expert at adapting, problem-solving, and finding new routes when the obvious path is blocked. I have made a career out of this side!
But there’s also an exhausting side—the side where people resist those adaptations, where they insist the square hole is perfectly fine as it is. They don’t see why I can’t just squeeze into it like everyone else. They assume if it doesn’t work for me, I must be the problem, not the system.
But here’s the truth: the world is better when we stop forcing ourselves into molds that don’t fit. When we challenge the rules, we create new ways forward—not just for ourselves, but for everyone who follows. Progress doesn’t come from accepting things as they are; it comes from determination, adaptation, and the refusal to be boxed in.
Some people will never understand. They’ll never agree. But that’s not the point. The point is to keep moving in our own way, even if the world wasn’t built for us—because, in the end, that’s how we reshape it.
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