As I wrote in the pages of my book  Cosplability, for 20 years in Italy, as a person with a severe disability living with Friedreich’s Ataxia, I have lived in a society that constantly reminds me through architectural and mental barriers that I am the ‘unfortunate exception it would rather forget.’

Today, I am more aware of this than ever.

My only caregiver, my adoptive mother, has been struck by frontotemporal dementia and is now permanently in a care facility. Since July 2025, I have found myself living alone, facing the struggles that every person with a disability knows all too well. The battle I champion in my podcast has now become my daily reality.

On top of this, I am facing the hostility of some of her relatives. By ignoring my needs and my right to an autonomous life, they are legally and physically obstructing the essential renovations needed to make my home accessible. To them, my disability seems to erase my right to a quality of life, a job, and independence. But I am not invisible. Through Cosplability Podcast I teach that people with disabilities are individuals with rights, and now I must defend my own.

Supporting this fundraiser means helping Alex the creator, the podcaster, the woman. It means declaring that my right to a full life is worth just as much as anyone else’s.

I am not looking for pity. I am only asking for concrete help to remain autonomous, to keep working, and to not lose my freedom.