Erica Mones, Author at Recovery Diaries

Erica Mones

Erica Mones is a 23-year-old writer and disability advocate from Long Island, New York. She is a staff writer at Cripple Magazine and has been published in The Progressive, Rooted in Rights, Audacity Magazine, Well+Good, and Popsugar. She has a Bachelor’s in Classical Civilizations and Writing from Loyola University Maryland. She has a blog called Running with Crutches and a podcast called No Standing Ovations Please.

When Disabled Womanhood Means Shrinking: How Diet Culture Affects the Bodies and Minds of Disabled Women

by Erica Mones

In middle school, Erica began to notice her weight and developed disordered thinking about her body in an attempt to control it. Through recovery, Erica learned that her need to control her body was in part to make her disability less noticeable to others.