Australia Quote by Stella Young

“I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.”

Stella Young

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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.

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

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

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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…

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When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.

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

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