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.

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...

Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part of the planetary _we_. The cosmopolitan _we_ is not grounded in a monolithic...

Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I’ll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let’s call it,...

Դոկտոր Շտրաուսն ասում է, որ լավ է որ գրումեմ իմձ հետ եղած ամեն ինչի մասին բայց պիտի ավելի շատ պատմեմ թե ինչեմ զգում ուինչեմ մտածում: երբ ասացի որ չգիտեմ ոնց են մտածում ինքը ասաց ոչինչ...

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

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate...

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then anew thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver wentup her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis ofgrace?

The sense of an entailed disadvantage — the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer...

Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase, some of laughter Some of pain. What we would do, If we had the chance to explore What we had taken for Granted the very day before,...

The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is fired the next day because of complaints that a woman who is so obviously not sexually attractive selling...

Ապրիլի Միսս Կինիանն ասում է որ ես արագեմ սովորում: ինքը կարդաց իմ նախորդ հաշվետվություններից մի քանիսն ու մի տեսակ տարօրինակ նայեց ինձ: ասաց որ ես լավ մարդ եմ ու դեռ դրանց բոլորին ցույց կտամ: ես...

Disability doesn’t make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent. This is a myth perpetuated by disablism and driven by capitalism – we...

You didn’t play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you’re going to make it with one? “If you’re just going to tell me what I can’t do, you can leave.

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much,...

Our family was starting. We kept on moving with our young lives, shortly afterward and took Ben Young with us everywhere. But pretty soon Pegi started noticing that Ben was not doing the things some...

So to all who are situated as I am, I would say–Grow up as fast as you can.

You’re not allowed to have legs and not use them.Dance.