As I have written within the volume Cosplability, for 20 years in Italy as a non-self-sufficient disabled person with Friedreich's Ataxia, I have lived in a Society that with architectural and mental barriers constantly reminds me how I am the 'unfortunate exception they would like to forget'.

But today, my life has changed.

My only caregiver – my adoptive mother – has been struck by frontotemporal dementia. Now I find myself alone, living with a severe motor disability, trying to face everything without support.

I’m not asking for pity.

I’m asking for something real: help to stay independent, keep working, and hold on to my freedom.