Melissa Blake - xoJane

An Open Letter to "Anonymous" -- You Can't Break Me

Melissa Blake — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:00:00 -0500

A couple of years after I started blogging, you’d pop up every so often -- always under the ever-so-clever Anonymous moniker, of course -- with a comment about how I looked or a dig at my disability.

I'm a 31-Year-Old Virgin Who's Never Been Kissed, and My Disability Isn't Holding Me Back, It's My Fear

Melissa Blake — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:00:00 -0500

I have finally heard from the man of my dreams, but my nervousness -- not my disability -- is holding me back from making my dream of a first kiss come true.

I Am One of 100 People Living With Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, and This is What I've Come to Realize True Beauty Is

Melissa Blake — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:00:00 -0400

I was sure my physical disability was my embarrassing beauty mark. No, not beauty mark. Ugly mark.