When I watch 'Mad Men' and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.
There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.
When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.
How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it!
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.
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