HELLO THERE!

Welcome to Spastic & Fantastic! My name is Gill and I created this platform as a way for me to process my thoughts surrounding disability, labels, stigmas, sexuality, relationships and more. People have been telling me to write a book for years, but I figured I’d do something a little more interactive with the potential to reach people in different ways.

Here’s the thing:

I’ve always hated being known as the “girl in the wheelchair”, or being complimented only to have '‘for a person in a wheelchair” tacked on at the end. For example, “You’re pretty for a person in a wheelchair!” I’ve always hated being labelled only as one thing because that one thing seems to get in the way of others seeing anything else. There are so many things that shape us - there isn’t one aspect that’s more important, better, or worse.

Being disabled doesn’t define me, but it does influence how I perceive things and interact with the world around me. Similar to someone who needs to wear glasses; It doesn’t define them, but it does influence how they perceive things and interact with the world around them. 

Obviously, these are two very different scenarios and cannot be a perfect comparison, but it does make me wonder why my disability makes me seem incomplete and broken by the majority of society when other differences are simply accepted as just that - differences. 

I am not anything in spite of my disability because being disabled is a huge part of my human experience - much like glasses are to those who need them.

Differences do not negate one’s validity or worth as a human. 

It’s not Spastic but Fantastic.  

It’s Spastic & Fantastic. 

Glad you’re here!