Our lives are very different from your lives. In addition to all the regular challenges that are part of adulthood, we also have to worry about pain, fatigue, nausea, migraines, physical limitations, brain fog, sleepContinue reading
Tag: Disability
Chronic Illness is Hard Quote
Chronic Illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we ever imagined. ~Cindee Snider
Helen Keller Quote
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me… if much has been denied me,Continue reading
Inclusive Society Quote
Hold my hand and walk with me. We must break the back of social inequity; We must empower every individual with a disability, To live with dignity in an inclusive society. ~William E. Lightbourne
Disabled Person Quote
As a disabled person, I resent the idea that we, in all forms and severities, should be punished for what is out of our control. ~Keah Brown
Disability Quote
I am disabled but I’m not my disability. Disability is just a little piece of me but it is not my whole personality. ~Jenni Johanna Toivonen
Invalid Quote
Side Note: Invalid. Whoever invented that word, and made it the same word as not-valid? That person sucked. ~Maria Dahvana Headley Â
Disability Judging Quote
Don’t judge my son By what you see You’d see his soul If you looked closely. ~Steph Quayle
Chronic Illness Quote
I would much rather be healthy and working instead of at home and in pain. I barely have a life outside of my chronic illness. It isn’t easy, and it isn’t fun and beingContinue reading
Caregiving Families Quote
Caregiving families (families in which one member has a disability) have median incomes that are more than 15% lower than non-caregiving families. In every state the poverty rate is higher among families with a memberContinue reading
Disability Quote
Disabled people are different looking, but not different feeling. We want all that anyone wants. We want to be self-sufficient. I am normal-feeling and I want to compete. ~Mike Kinter
Disabled Treatment Quote
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.~Chen Guangcheng
Disability Quote
Disability is one of the greatest bridges to inclusivity. Disability knows no boundaries between race, culture, religion, gender or economic status.~Rick Hansen
Disability Quote
We, the ones who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as aContinue reading