A bind is when you’re quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with...

The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless social interaction, pushes people to the limit with learning about themselves,...

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

Parents of medically fragile children find themselves becoming experts in lots of different areas, including laws and regulations, research and treatments, and the various specialists that support the health of their children.

A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of...

I used to think of myself in terms of who I’d be if I didn’t have this pesky old disability.

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she...

Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems.

In the context of the autism world (and my outlook in general) this is were I stand equality is for everyone, everybody in the world – I look at both sides of the the coin...

Dreams are like living things; they can grow, they can suffer disabilities, they can have deficiency diseases and they can also die off when they meet unfavourable and favourable conditions respectively.

Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.

I Have a Dream… someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings. I Have a Dream… someday the human & civil rights of individuals with disabilities are honored...

Even though our journey as parents of a medically fragile child began with emotional turmoil, it has since become a purposeful odyssey that brings meaning and depth to our lives. This is the road we...

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...

It’s undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

I am not sick.I am broken.But I am happy to be alive.

If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.

I do not have a disability, I have a gift! Others may see it as a disability, but I see it as a challenge. This challenge is a gift because I have to become stronger...

The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette’s syndrome: “Wisdom is encoded in our common language. We all have, to some extent, a complex, sometimes adversarial, relationship with...

I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.

When you focus on someone’s disability you’ll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.

An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

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

What’s it like here?There’s a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones.

People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.

Two one-armed people might seem perfect for each other, but what if they’re both missing the same arm? Then even something simple like holding hands while walking becomes a case of they’re too similar to...

A large portion of the chronic homeless are disabled enough that they would be eligible for disability benefits and many already get them. But when the money runs out they stay with relatives or get...

The more love and support your child receives, the richer his or her life becomes, and nurses can certainly add to the circle of love surrounding your child.

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...

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” – Bell Hooks

Generally speaking, and not in all instances, those schools that have higher percentages of students receiving special education services are going to tend to do less well on the tests. It’s the nature of an...

Disability insurance is not cheap. But you have to weigh your own situation: what would happen to your own personal lifestyle if tomorrow morning you could not work any more? What would you do? Unless...

A troubled life beats having no life at all

Near the end of Love’s Labor, Eva Feder Kittay (1999, 154) writes that a fundamental aspect of a just society is related to the conditions and limits of mothering. In a just society, women with...

Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness has been...

When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.

The measure of a man, or woman, is not so much what they have accomplished, though that has weight. It often is much more though what that man or woman has overcome to accomplish what...

The world isn’t built with a ramp.

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.

Disability insurance is something that every adult should look at.

It’s obvious that something needs to be done. We’re almost at a 40 percent disability rate.

He’s smart. But it’s like a learning disability. If you’re talking to him straight on, you either have to repeat it so he can catch on to it or he’ll catch it the first time.

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

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent…. I grew up afraid of illness and disability, inclined to avert my gaze...

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn’t have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts....

Part of the problem with the word ‘disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of...