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I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

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

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

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.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.