Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
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.
Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.
I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.
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