Stella Young

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

— Stella Young

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

— Stella Young

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

— Stella Young

I have always felt like a loved, valued and equal member of my family.

— Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

— Stella Young

Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought.

— Stella Young

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,

— Stella Young

Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

— Stella Young

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

When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one…

— Stella Young

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

— Stella Young

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

— Stella Young

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed…

— Stella Young

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

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

In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has…

— Stella Young

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

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a…

— Stella Young

Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a…

— Stella Young

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

“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

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went…

— Stella Young

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone…

— Stella Young

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

“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

If everyone's looking at me, I might as well say something interesting.

— Stella Young

Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.

— Stella Young

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

— Stella Young

People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

— Stella Young

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

— Stella Young

Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

— Stella Young

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

— Stella Young

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

— Stella Young

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

— Stella Young

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

— Stella Young

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

— Stella Young

My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well…

— Stella Young

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

— Stella Young

My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am…

— Stella Young

There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens…

— Stella Young