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Stella Young  Quotes
We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don’t how to interact with people with disabilities. They’re unsure of the ‘right’ reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better...

—Stella Young

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Believe me, people with disabilities are just as concerned about benefit fraud as anyone else. Money spent on those who are not in need is money that isn’t being spent on vital services to support...

—Stella Young

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The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It’s that no-one will let us.

—Stella Young

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Death is not treatment, even if it’s medically facilitated.

—Stella Young

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I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone’s only attracted...

—Stella Young

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For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We’re not real people. We are there to inspire.

—Stella Young

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Let’s not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

—Stella Young

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The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are – that...

—Stella Young

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As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invitation to the pub is consistently followed by, ‘Do you know if they have an accessible toilet?’

—Stella Young

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Disability informs almost every part of my life. It’s as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It’s certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or...

—Stella Young

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I really love filling out forms – quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia’s 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I’ve spent a fair...

—Stella Young

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Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

—Stella Young

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I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low key after-school job, and I spent a lot of time watching ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek.’

—Stella Young

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For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.

—Stella Young

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My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.

—Stella Young

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There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.

—Stella Young

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My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn’t accessible.

—Stella Young

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For me, disability is a physical experience, but it’s also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word ‘crip’ is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

—Stella Young

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Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be...

—Stella Young

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For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been – because I’m stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

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I’ve got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories...

—Stella Young

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I do not identify as a person with a disability. I’m a disabled person. And I’ll be a monkey’s disabled uncle if I’m going to apologise for that.

—Stella Young

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On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

—Stella Young

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When I was seven and watched an episode of ‘Beyond 2000’ that featured a floating armchair, I thought we’d definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest.

—Stella Young

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I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

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I don’t generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach to disability, and so long Latin names for congenital conditions are...

—Stella Young

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From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New...

—Stella Young

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The battle to find a workplace that’s wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who’s going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want...

—Stella Young

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I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

—Stella Young

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I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make...

—Stella Young

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I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

—Stella Young

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Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

—Stella Young

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Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.

—Stella Young

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I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or...

—Stella Young

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From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we’re bombarded by requests to be ‘aware’ of one thing or another.

—Stella Young

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The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is...

—Stella Young

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I have always felt like a loved, valued and equal member of my family.

—Stella Young

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In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to provide one. Believe me, nothing says ‘I’m the best person for this job’...

—Stella Young

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My parents didn’t know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.

—Stella Young

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People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

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The killing of a disabled person is not ‘compassionate’. It is not ‘euthanasia’. It is murder.

—Stella Young

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I use the term ‘disabled people’ quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what’s called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than...

—Stella Young

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From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It’s a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.

—Stella Young

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Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking ‘equal’ means ‘the same’ and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

—Stella Young

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I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don’t think about dying, either.

—Stella Young

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In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

—Stella Young

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Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

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Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and ’70s fought for.

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The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

—Stella Young

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