Self-advocacy

Lindsey Spoon started a YouTube channel to talk about makeup. She's done her own since sixth grade, and Makeup and Mobility began as a place to review products and share tips. It didn't stay just a beauty channel for long. Scroll through her uploads now, and you'll find a Rare Beauty haul next to a video called "Let's talk about disability and depression." A review of a self-priming foundation sits a few videos away from her explaining how she handles a bad mental health day.

Ask most people what a person with an intellectual or developmental disability contributes to their community, and the answer tends to focus in one direction: what the community gives to them. Support, accommodation, patience, care. All of that matters. But it tells only half the story, and it is the half that keeps people with IDD positioned as recipients rather than as neighbors who show up, lead, and give back just like anyone else. This year's MLK Season of Service told t