Best quotes by Stella Young on Disability

Checkout quotes by Stella Young on Disability

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

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

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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.

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

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• ‟ Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

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• ‟ I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

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• ‟ People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.

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• ‟ Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

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• ‟ Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

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