Thorns

That's actually a huge part of how addiction and recovery is an ongoing disability experience. Just because a disability is view-able to others doesn't mean it isn't there. Just because an addict isn't giving in to their addiction, is managing it, doesn't mean they aren't disabled or aren't an addict- it's just that it's an internal disability experience. struggling with compulsion that is internal, living in a world/society that seems built for relapse. The way that non-users treat the things that an addict is resisting relapse for is usually incredibly close to how other vampires treat Mitchell. The idea that an addict who isn't actively engaging in their addiction isn't disabled is a bit silly, and kinda veers into the "psych/mental disabilities aren't *real* disabilities" stuff which is. . . problematic.

Annie's is super obvious if you know people with Mental Health disabilities. Self esteem, denial, anxiety, and agoraphobia? Anyone? As someone who *has* had agoraphobic episodes and decided to work to get past them, I really do see in Annie's experience some of my own experiences with agoraphobia. You want to go out, but something that is a part of you (she's a ghost and complications from that; I have an anxiety disorder as well as other disabilities and agoraphobia is a manifestation of that) keeps you in.