Hurrah for Frances Ryan (‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women, 9 April)! As a disabled woman of 60 who has lived with a visible disability since I was 12, seeing Frances’s article just made me want to shout “Hell, yes”. I’ve spent my life sanitising my experience of disability and several long-term health conditions, hiding the less palatable aspects. Working twice as hard as my non-disabled peers. Achieving a senior position at the cost of my own health and wellbeing. Society can’t handle disabled women: the fact that we can have a laugh, get drunk, have a sex life, travel solo, have a job, own a house. Society would rather we stay indoors, out of sight, out of mind, out of the workplace with our “demands” for reasonable adjustments. We’re not tragic but brave. We are angry and fed up with being treated as a nuisance if we dare to question the lack of access or processes that disable us. Frances – never stop telling it like it is. We see you and we love you just the way you are. Karen Edmunds Smarden, Kent • Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.