Quotes About Disability

Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work.

I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.

The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.

Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can't play Beyonce, then Beyonce can't play a wheelchair user.

As prime minister, I was conscious of walking in Whitlam's footsteps as our government set about creating a companion to Medicare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.

For me, in my life, dyslexia has been a little bit of a blessing. It helped me find my strength and directed me towards what I really wanted to do.

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

My heart goes out to any parents who are being led to believe their kids have a disorder or are disabled.

Diversity is not only color, but it also includes individuals with disabilities.

The more exposure any big comic with a disability gets will open more doors for the rest of us and help change people's attitudes.

In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body.

When people say there are people who are faking it, if I had a choice I wouldn't want to have a disability.

I used to do a lot of pratfalls on stage. And I tell you, when a guy with cerebral palsy falls down on stage on purpose - nobody ever knows if it was real or not.

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

At least you didn't punch her," said Robin. "In her wheelchair. In front of all the art lovers." Strike began to laugh.

In yet another political fracas, Coleman received a caning that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

Lordul Edward È™i fratele s?u luau aer în parcul Gattenden. Lordul Edward lua aer plimbîndu-se. Al cincilea marchiz lua aer într-un fotoliu pe rotile, tras de un m?gar mare, cenuÈ™iu. Marchizul era infirm. "Asta nu împiedic?, din fericire, s?-mi umble mintea", îi pl?cea lui s? spun?. Mintea îi umblase haotic, de colo-colo, toat? viaÈ›a. M?garul cenuÈ™iu mergea încet, foarte încet.

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

Lange, who had been stricken by polio at the age of seven and walked with a painful limp, had become famous for the achingly sympathetic photographs she'd taken for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. "Cripples know about each other," she said of her ability to capture suffering on film.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Apparently, as historian Paul Kramer dryly observes, "for California officials and in the eyes of the law, there is little difference between disability, immorality, and Chinese femininity.