Jo Hawthorn

Navigating One-off Interactions When Illness and Ability Burn your Bridges

On today's agenda: grovel over literal horse shit. There's always a risk when trying to navigate the barter of labor with a stranger. Add a disability to the mix, and what might have been an otherwise straightforward situation - say, like picking up a truckload of manure - becomes a minefield. A stranger, by definition, knows little to nothing about you; decisions about disclosure abound from the very start.