Disability Advocacy Quotes

“He didn’t need to be ‘fixed.’ He needed to be understood.”
― Dr. Simbi Animashaun, Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness

“Autism didn’t change my love—it deepened it.”
― Dr. Simbi Animashaun, Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness

“Representation matters. Our stories matter. Black families deserve to be seen in every conversation about autism.”
― Dr. Simbi Animashaun, Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness

“The hardest part of parenting through autism isn’t the diagnosis—it’s the silence that follows when support doesn’t come.”
― Dr. Simbi Animashaun, Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness

“There is no single spectrum. Every child colors their world in their own way—and every hue is worthy of love.”
― Dr. Simbi Animashaun, Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness

“Crip doula, a term created by disability justice organizer Stacey Park Milbern to describe the ways disabled people support/mentor newly disabled people in learning disabled skills (how to live on very low spoons, drive a wheelchair, have sex/redefine sexuality, etc.). A doula supports someone doing the work of childbirth; a crip doula is a disabled person supporting another disabled person as they do the work of becoming disabled, or differently disabled, of dreaming a new disabled life/world into being.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs