Stella Young Quotes

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• 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 don’t…
• No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,
• Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
• In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a…
• I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven
• I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because…
• I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I…
• I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I…
• Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling…
• Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.
• It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with disability as it…
• Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.
• People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.
• Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
• Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
• The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability,…
• Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of…
• The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
• 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 I…
• People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

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