Seeking Compassion - Humour helps:
Seeking Compassion - Humour helps:
One of my strongest memories from Ayclive
is also one of the hardest.
I was shaking, in pain, and sat on the floor at the entrance — overwhelmed, ignored, and treated with hostility. In the middle of all that, someone asked me for my ticket QR code.
I said, “I’ll see if I can find that for you… and while I’m at it, maybe I’ll try and find some compassion too — it seems to be in short supply.”
One of the few kind staff nearby chuckled, and so did I.
I was having a PTSD flashback, completely caught up in a wave of panic and helplessness — but that moment of humour, my own defiance in the face of it all, snapped me out of it.
Even as I relived the trauma, the memory of that small spark made me giggle again.
And reminded me: humour is a valid coping strategy.
Whoever said it isn’t clearly hasn’t needed it like we have.
— Sarah
Independent Disability Advocate
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