Another life metaphor

One of the challenges with inclusion is that people who experience it consistently may not notice it at all. In many ways, inclusion operates like privilege. Those who have always felt included rarely have to think about what inclusion means because it has become their normal experience. A useful way to understand this is through the lens of health. Most people do not spend much time talking about being healthy because health is experienced as the default state. We become aware of health when something goes wrong, and the same is true for inclusion. People rarely notice inclusion when it is present, but they immediately recognise exclusion when it appears.