Everywhere you look these days, you see a feel-good, "inspirational" story about a temporarily able-bodied person being nice to a disabled person. Quite often, these seem to involve high school students. It might be about how an undefeated high school wrestler gave up his perfect record so that he could let a disabled classmate win a match, about ( Read more... )

Are you interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths? If you study, teach or work in STEM you might like STEM-DC. I'm looking at that, thanks to our own barakta.( Read more... )

http://themighty.com/2014/05/comedian-debunks-the-lie-weve-all-been-told-about-disability/

Here's an infographic about Dr Temple Grandin. Out of date: by now, she's Professor Grandin. Some say that Prof Grandin is 'a special breed of hero.' What do you say?

I'm a bit surprised, and very pleased, to learn that there will be Paralympic Winter Games in March this year. Surprised because I didn't know that disabled athletes were allowed to be disabled on ice. I'm not generally a watcher of sport, but I hope there'll be an opening ceremony like the one that moved me to tears at the Summer Paralympics. Who ( Read more... )

This Danish woman who has been stuck with MS has nonetheless run 366 marathons in one year. One per day, plus one, for a full year.

Of course, everyone's disease is different, but this makes me wonder whether I could even run part of a marathon... without any walls to cling to... without a wheelie walker... with only my legs and feet and shoes and ( Read more... )

Somebody told me to look up Hilary Freeman so I did. I'm liking her attitude and the way she makes her living by doing something that she *can* do ( Read more... )

Is there a name for the first stage people go through, when they meet a crip ( Read more... )

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