High fit

Volume is about how strongly you project yourself into the world. Nicole Kelly had turned her volume way down on one specific part of herself — her disability — hoping that if she didn't broadcast it, others would stop seeing it as the main thing. But turning that down didn't make it invisible; it just meant she wasn't controlling the story. After the Long Island email, she turned the volume back up — not to lead with her arm, but to stop suppressing it as something shameful.