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.
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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.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.
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