For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
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… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly disabled at all. I… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: wheelchairs,… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“I am not here to inspire you. I am here to tell you that we have been lied to about disability. Yeah,… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“03:11 And in the past few years, we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media. You may have… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name… — Stella Young Copy Share
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled… — Stella Young Copy Share
For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at… — Stella Young Copy Share
Believe me, people with disabilities are just as concerned about benefit fraud as anyone else. Money spent on those who are not in need… — Stella Young Copy Share
In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable. — Stella Young Copy Share
We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we… — Stella Young Copy Share
When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded. — Stella Young Copy Share
I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism. — Stella Young Copy Share
The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's… — Stella Young Copy Share
As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invitation to the pub is consistently… — Stella Young Copy Share
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness. — Stella Young Copy Share
From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant… — Stella Young Copy Share
