Quote

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.

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.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

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.

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.