479 Quotes About Disability

It is hard to be charitable when you have been denied your disability benefits and your workers compensation for occupational disease.

You know what will be fun?""What?""When we can stop pretending that we're interesting people who go out and do things and instead we can hang out and just do nothing."It's incredible to hear those words out of someone's mouth besides mine. Not that I've ever said them, actually. Who would I say them to?"That sounds amazing," I say.

Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society

There is power and excitement in reclaiming things that were once used to hurt or demean you.

That’s the funny thing about having something you can’t change; you can aim for aloofness, but that lends itself to obsession and frustration that people absolutely pick up on.

Behind the disability, we have a heart and a mind.

Of course you can pull every dirty lawyer trick to deny my Disability and Workers Compensation benefits...but there will be payback for you at a later time.

I, too, feed into the idealization of youth and the ability to do things ‘young people should be able to do’ despite the fact that I know that’s ableist bullshit.

I promise you, I don't need your cures or poorly thought-out pieces of advice, but I'll take free designer clothes, cheesecake, and a first-class plane ticket.