Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

This is I, me, your buddy, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet and person who loves talking about money.

And we talk about money quite a bit on this show and the way it intersects with a lot of things.

But often when we talk about money,

whether it's intersecting with fashion or health care

or our professional lives or travel or any of our consumer

choices, we will have people in the comments

telling us about how these terms, like accessible or affordable

or any other normative word we're using, only really to some of us and that people living with disabilities often do not have even remotely the same level of access or affordability to many of the basic day-to-day expenses of life that we're talking about.

So many of our decisions exist within a prism and a framework that prioritizes and in many cases

necessitates being able-bodied.

And although the pandemic did recently teach many of us

that health is very much conditional as is ability,

and that often even when we're making the best choices,

it is out of our hands, we still have a ton to learn when it comes to disability,

how we relate to it as a culture, and how we effectively

punish people for being born in the wrong bodies.

All of us could benefit from a health care

system amongst many systems, which is more accommodating

for all of us.

But these big policy level changes

are almost certainly not going to be made

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