Learning Acceptance and Accessibility with Caylin Mansfield

my name Caylin I’m 23 years old, I’m from San Diego CA. I was born premature at 24 weeks and I live with spastic hemiplegia (cerebral palsy) and was diagnosed at 2 years old. Im also neurodivergent and live with autoimmune issues, as well as severe anxiety. Mental health is really important to me and something I talk about and take very seriously. I love all things advocacy, social justice, music and coffee. As a disabled person it’s made me very introspective from a young age and that’s melded into me loving poetry and writing / public speaking as a way to express what I’m feeling. A huge interest of mine is music & specifically playlist curating as I have synesthesia and so I see & feel colors, I feel music very intensely and everything has its own correspondence, so I use that as an intuitive way to make playlists for either people based on their energy or whatever comes to mind. It’s kind of like getting a tarot reading but with music. Living with synesthesia really brightens up my world in a very interesting way. It feels like I’m a creative director 24/7. I’m currently going back to school to major in cultural anthropology in hopes that furthers me in my advocacy / modeling work to broaden my knowledge. I struggle in academics because of my disability but I take my time because I know it’s something I’ll benefit from. What’s also important to me is that I’m very open about my sexuality as a disabled person. I’m a lesbian and that wasn’t always the most exciting thing to my conservative family. I have a very rocky relationship with my parents as they never… Read More