Kristy Webster

Kristy Webster

Teaching With Invisible Disabilities

The Toll of Masking and Over-Functioning

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The Empathy Studio Collective
Dec 13, 2025
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Anyone who has known me for any length of time knows this story.

In 2010, a social worker told me that I would someday become a burden to my children. She said with the level of my disabilities, I would never be successful or contribute to society in any way.

She said, “Kristy, you’re one of those people who will never …

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