479 Quotes About Disability

teaching the students I did before the accident helped me understand that a disability isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can be handled

Հաշվետվությոուն 10Ապրիլ 14- Վերջացրեցի Ռոբինզոն Կրուզոն: Ուզումեմ իմանալ, թե հետո ինչ է լինում իր հետ, բայց միսս Կինիանն ասում է, որ վերջ այսքանն է: Ինչու:

Some would look at Emily’s life and think that a child born with Down’s syndrome has little hope for a meaningful life. Throw in the diagnosis of leukemia and that little hope turns into no hope whatsoever.I disagree.Emily’s life, with all its imperfections, had great meaning. Because of how many people she touched, I realize that we are far more than what we can accomplish. We are the very thumbprints of God.

I think you have this . . . I don’t know . . . this tremendous capacity to see the beauty in everything–even in things that sometimes inspire pity or repulse others. That’s a gift, not a perversion.

He'd killed people, lots of them if he cared to count. Which he didn't.

Can you stand on your legs?” Sydelle Pulaski asked. “Can you walk at all?”People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. “N-n-no. Why?”“What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi.”Chris enjoyed being taken for the criminal type. Now they really were friends.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. -Scott Hamilton

To live with his physical hideousness, incapacitating deformities and unremiting pain is trial enough, but to be exposed to the cruelly lacerating expressions of horror and disgust by all who behold him -- is even more difficult to bear. [...] For in order to survive, Merrick forces himself to suffer these humiliations, I repeat, humiliations, in order to survive, thus he exposes himself to crowds who pay to gape and yawp at this freak of nature, the Elephant Man.

Que ceux qui n'ont jamais eu peur d'avoir un enfant anormal lèvent la main. Personne n'a levé la main. Tout le monde y pense, comme on pense à un tremblement de terre, comme on pense à la fin du monde, quelque chose qui n'arrive qu'une fois. J'ai eu deux fins du monde.