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We have no idea what’s going to happen in our lives and our bodies.
Liz Cooper Photography
But I like my life so much more now than I liked my life then.
There’s this argument about whether its worse to be disabled or not.
It pushed me into being alive in a way that I wasn’t able to access before.
I can’t be in warm temperatures.
But somehow [becoming disabled] made my life more of a life.
Slice couldnt think of any.
when we were reading books.
She’s really surprised when people don’t have wheelchairs, Slice says.
Something we felt really strongly about is that the disabilities didn’t have a cartoonish, sanitized look.
Slices third bookUnfit Parentcomes out in April.
Glamour: How do you start your day?
Jessica Slice:My mornings are so slow.
I can’t even really sit up.
After all of that, I sit up and I meditate and practice French.
Then I go down and join the family breakfast routine.
What is your go-to work uniform?
For six months, I wore the same uniform of running shorts and giant oversized graphic T-shirts.
More recently, I’ve been wearing a lot of oversize linen shirt dresses.
I think this one is Frank and Eileen.
They’re so good and they last forever.
I have a Nespresso.
I drink a lot of that since having my second kid.
I’ve also been having one miniature Diet Coke every afternoon.
So little is in my control, this isn’t going to be the thing that takes me down.
My main interest was reading.
I remember readingAnna Kareninaway too early.
I was an intense child.
Anna Karenina
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What was your first job?
He liked Dave Matthews, so I remember listening to a lot of Dave Matthews to impress him.
What does self-care look like for you?
Because I get tired so easily, I’m really good at balancing work and rest.
I only ever write for 20 minutes at a time and I have to take 30 minutes off afterwards.
My body has built in rest.
What is the best piece of career or money advice you’ve ever gotten?
My therapist telling me 10 years ago I should try writing, which was good advice.
I mean, I’m 42 and I started writing at 37 or 38.
I just think his sentences are stunning.
He wrote back halfway through reading the book and he said this book is changing my life.
And then he sent a really gorgeous blurb.
Anyone pushing for change has to balance a sense of optimism with frustration.
How do you do that?
It’s really hard to feel anything but anger in those situations.
The thing that gives me optimism is that the solution is already there.
Disabled people who have come before me have already said how [these issues need to be fixed].
How do you hope your work ultimately changes perceptions of disability?
Disabled people are these beacons of a more sustainable way forward for everyone.
Being disabled is actually not all that different from not being disabled.
We all have really picky bodies and minds.
Your body has a ton of needs.
Your child has a bunch of needs.
Your partner has a bunch of needs.
Were all very needy.
The delineation between disabled and needy and not disabled and needy is kind of artificial.
