Let me tell you all about my disability super powers

You Are Special! Now Stop Being Different - The New York Times

All of us, even the so-called normal, move in and out of states of ability and disability every day. It's our strengths, weaknesses, ...

What's Up WID: Disability Representation in the Media Transcripts

The thing is, we haven't been able to tell our own stories. When they've talked about us, we haven't been part of that design or that ...

Need to get my legal name changed after merged

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Life Could Be About to Get Easier - by Devin Thorpe

But the ability to take this extremely complex “what is disability?” We all have different experiences to distill it down to that framework. So, ...

Your Disability is a Tragedy vs Your Disability is your Superpower

... the way people sometimes talk to us. I often see disabled ... All it does it make you feel better about yourself by trying to help ...

Celebrating ADHD Super Powers with My Students - ADDitude

I think we need to let people know that living with a disability isn't a bad thing. We might even be a little better at some things than a lot ...

Diversity Insight: People with Disabilities Have Hidden Superpowers

For the next 14 years, I tried to hide my disability at work. I feared my employer and co-workers would view me differently once they realized I ...

Experience: Disability: let's say the word - The A11Y Project

In lieu of that, at least ensure their children would learn sign language. In the same vein as “don't fix us” was “We're not disabled! We're ...

Should You Tell Your Child about Their Disability or Diagnosis?

Thanks for the great clarity of the power of putting our children INTO ... Wow, I love all the great comments. I see a thread from all of you that in ...

Read Aloud: Nathan's Autism Spectrum Superpowers by Lori Leigh

THAT THIS HAS EXTRA SOUNDS WHILE THE READER IS READING. THE REASON IS THAT WE ASKED A FRIEND TO SHOW US HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE SUPERPOWERS ...

Thinking Like Jesus About Disability - Desiring God

The geneticists the next day told us that Hope had this metabolic disorder that had already done a great deal of damage to all of her major ...

Is ADHD a Superpower? Here's My Take. - Work Brighter

Second of all, the superpower narrative of ADHD feels like a slippery slide into disability denial to me. (And yes, ADHD is a disability ...

Disability is NOT negative Some people think of disability as an in...

someone said to me 'so bascially you got diagnosed with a superpower', no actually i got diagnosed with ehlers danos syndrome! maps orchestral ...

"We Don't Get Superpowers Just Because We Have a Disability" | KBIA

Taylor: Yeah. Putting you in the hot seat. Madi: How dare? It's hard for me to open up and really talk about stuff sometimes because I know ...

Bipolar Disorder is My Superpower

In celebration of World Bipolar Day on March 30, I want people to know that I do not see this mental illness as a disability — it is my ...

The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability - Monthly Review

I have a confession to make: I do not work. I am on SSI.1 I have very little work value (if any), and I am a drain on our country's welfare ...

Changing my perspective on life with a disability | Am I living a...

To me, living a disabled life means that your disability controls your life. You let what you can't do dictate everything — your choices ...

Turning Your Child's Struggles into Superpowers: From Disorder to ...

Find the Superpower ... By identifying our children's differences in a more positive light – as a disposition rather than disorders, this does not mean that we ...

Confronting shame—and accepting my disability—with Judy Heumann

There are myriad other examples that I and millions of others like me could—and should—tell to allow people to understand the pain we have faced ...

The Great (Culture) Wall - Disability and Society - CHASA

What I want, what I will always be working for, is the day when saying 'I have a disability' is no more shocking and uncomfortable than saying 'I have brown ...