People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.

Next to God, Family is the best thing.

Severe mental illness has been likened to drug addiction, prostitution, and criminality (37,38). Unlike physical disabilities, persons with mental illness are perceived by the public to be in control of their disabilities and responsible for...

Our culture teaches that sex is for the sexy, and the only way to be sexy is to be pretty. No wait–that’s still too weak. Sex should properly arise from sexiness. For unsexy people–fat people,...

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of...

An aged monk led me to the infirmary. “He’s got the place to himself. Once the other invalids learned there was a dragon coming they miraculously got well! The lame could walk and the blind...

Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it’s not merely the necessity of the dog that’s questioned but also the existance of the disability itself. And...

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it. You feel it’s something between you and the body. You feel it’s a...

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.

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against...

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man’s quest to save himself? To cure himself?…Or, to “be” himself?

The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I...

…Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn’t even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability to function on his own, or what the hell he was...

He held the torch, with the world watching and somehow, his disability enhanced his persona. He continues to have an energetic spirit. You see that man ascending to light the Olympic torch. What city wouldn’t...

They all focus on how we get people to save for disability when they are young and healthy.

There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there...

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

Whether you are completely remodeling your home or using some of the readily available low-cost adaptive products, creating a safe, comfortable and accessible environment is not planning for disability – it’s planning for continued independence.

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God’s solidarity with humanity.

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...