Intellectual Disability Quotes

“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

“The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and yet, it is a reality which most people deny and try to escape from.”
― Wolf Wolfensberger

“What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.”
― J. David Smith, Ignored, Shunned, and Invisible: How the Label Retarded Has Denied Freedom and Dignity to Millions