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  • #1
    Fred Rogers
    “Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.”
    Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

  • #2
    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.”
    S. Kelley Harrell

  • #3
    Jennifer Starzec
    “I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.”
    Jennifer Starzec, Determination

  • #4
    Jennifer Starzec
    “People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days,' [my mom] said quietly.”
    Jennifer Starzec, Determination

  • #5
    Robert M. Hensel
    “I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.”
    Robert M. Hensel

  • #6
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

  • #7
    Kim Edwards
    “What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by the book. But what if they simply erased those growth and development charts, with their precise, constricting points and curves? What if they kept their expectations but erased the time line? What harm could it do? Why not try?”
    Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter



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