479 Quotes About Disability

In a social model [of disability], the interaction between the conditions of the body and the shapes of the world that makes disability into a lived experience, and therefore a matter not only for individuals but also for societies.

In a social model [of disability], the interaction between the conditions of the body and the shapes of the world that makes disability into a lived experience, and therefore a matter not only for individuals but also for societies

Disability gathers a dimensional we like nothing else, because disability is no more and no less than human needfulness, both personal and political. That's why the we that ties together this book is as tenuous as it is important: the collective that arises in the form of shared bodily vulnerability, the ways our physicality and our thriving are tied.

Instead of defining independence as 'self-sufficiency,' the standard for independence in the clinical setting where they'd been treated as patients, they claimed that their independence would be understood instead as 'self-determination.' The difference separated the dignity of authority and choice from the action itself.

The people who are trying to be on our side have reduced us to a mere calculation

There is a sense that a particular neurodivergence does not make people inherently disabled, but they feel disabled because of the generally overstimulating environments of dominant neurotypical culture and settings.

Disability is not something an individual overcomes. I'm still disabled. I'm still Deafblind. People with disabilities are successful when we develop alternative techniques and our communities choose inclusion.

It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They place the burden on me to step out of my world and reach into theirs

There are a large number of COVID-19 survivors that have been left disabled and are in the process of finding out how fraudulent the government disability system is.