Selma Blair Storytelling is powerful. Stories can ultimately shape your identity and how the world sees you.Throughout my life, my story has been told by other people: Manic depressive.
Drunk. Mean.In my memoir, “Mean Baby,” I wrote about never feeling a sense of belonging. Throughout my life, I often felt disconnected from my body, out of control, as if I didn’t belong in my own skin.
I learned not to show or talk about pain because I didn’t want it to define me, nor did I understand what my pain meant. In 2018, I was finally able to tell other people how I identified myself: disabled.
I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and learned it had been attacking my central nervous system for years. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone in the entertainment industry to look up to who had a disability or was open about their diagnosis, and I didn’t see my experiences reflected in the stories being told on screen.
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