Melissa blake

YES!!!! You read that title right -- today marks my 6,000th blog post on So About What I Said, and I honestly can't believe it! Those 6,000 posts have flown by!! The time has flown by faster than anything! It was just yesterday and I was typing my first post and trying to figure out this platform called blogging...

Readers, you might remember Melissa Blake from her guest post over at Vitamin G. Melissa is a writer who was born with Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, a rare genetic bone and muscular disorder. She pens the popular blog So About What I Said where she chats about food, music, fashion and lots of other fun topics. The very busy 29-year-old writes the Disabled and Thriving blog for Psychology Today. When I heard this clever gal also dished on dating, I knew we had to talk.

As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unfortunately, fashion wasn't much interested in her. Now, at 39, Blake, is a fashion role model herself.

MEMORANDUM TO: Men all over the planet FROM: A very strong-willed woman RE: Theories about your aversion to my disability I recently sat flipping through my old journals. I immediately stopped when I got to a particular entry. it was from sometime during my high school heyday and my teenage self matter-of-factly wrote something along the lines of: Guys just don't like girls in wheelchairs. Or with any sort of disability, it seems. It read back to me like some sort of socially agreed-upon law…

Four truths this writer and activist wishes you knew

Melissa Blake is a freelance writer covering relationships, disabilities and pop culture and has been featured on sites such as CNN and Cosmopolitan. She also has a popular blog called 'So About What I Said,' where she gives inspiring personal insights into living with Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, a genetic bone and muscular disorder that she has had since birth.

My career has made me think about a lot of things, especially about why writing about my disability has meant so much to me over the years... xoxo

Blake Jenner and Melissa Benoist

Melissa Blake is a writer and blogger from the Midwest. She writes about Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome (Google it – she dares you) on her lifestyle blog, So About What I Said, and even though she's only 4-feet tall, she's never been afraid to squash those gigantic stereotypes that cross her path. She loves to smile and has also been known to overshare. You can read Part 1 of these memos here. --------------------------------------------- MEMORANDUM TO: Men all over the planet FROM: A very…

Actor Blake Jenner has come clean and confirmed he’s the mystery man behind his ex-wife Melissa Benoist’s domestic violence drama in a candid social media statement.