Always Disabled: Navigating Grief over a Lost Childhood
“I feel like I’ve lost my childhood to my disability.” I’ve read this haunting sentence multiple times on social media. I’ve also heard it from the mouths of disabled people in real life. So many of us relate to the feeling of never having experienced a normal childhood. Some have spent the majority of their formative […]
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The ADA is Not Enough: Why Disability Rights Should be Explicitly Included as a Civil Right
In Alabama, a young woman walks into the ER with severe COVID-19 symptoms. Doctors determine she needs to be placed on a ventilator. But, she eventually is not placed on a ventilator. The protocol used to arrive at this decision lists several health conditions such as heart disease, previous lung issues for which providers should […]
Why It Takes Me Three Days to Get to the Doctor
This is a picture of the outfit that I wore to my most recent doctor’s appointment. My thoughts in choosing this were that I wanted to be dressed up so I wouldn’t look “slobbish,” but I didn’t want to look so nice that they’d think I had the time and energy to put lots […]
On Disability-Coding and the Cripple Werewolf
Across the internet, disabled people are reclaiming popular characters as their own. TikTok trends with captions like, “Characters that are autistic because I (an autistic person) say so,” or, “This character is for the chronically ill and disabled,” take characters that are not explicitly disabled and make them explicitly disabled. Some characters and stories lend […]
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The Ultimate Beijing 2022 Paralympic Guide
Where can you find 78 different events throughout 6 sports in 2 disciplines? Starting March 4th, tune in to the thirteenth edition of the Winter Paralympic Games! Being held in Beijing, China, the Games are running from the 4th to 13th of March, 2022. If you were looking for all of your Paralympic information in […]
I’m Allowed to Be Angry
It has taken me months to try and write this piece. It has sat in my to do list since August, “Write cripple anger piece.” Every time I’ve tried to start, though, every time I think I’ve found the words to begin, I’m set back. I’m pushed away from the issue I want to write […]
When Doctors and Disability Do Not Mix
A study led by Harvard professor of medicine, Dr. Iezzoni, published in Health Affairs in 2021 determined that out of 714 practising US physicians, only 41% of doctors felt very confident that they could provide the same quality care to their patients with disabilities as they provide to able-bodied patients. Not only is this statistic […]
Why Digital Accessibility Matters
Image description: A picture of two hands seeming to be typing on a laptop’s keyboard. The laptop has a window opened, of what seems to be a page of a social media post. This post is sponsored by Fable. “Student ID, phone, laptop… I think that’s everything,” I mentally list before I leave for […]