The ADA prevents anyone from directly questioning me about it. But I always choose to. Let me tell you why.
disability
disney world
HAVE YOU BEEN OUTRAGED BY THIS YET? Unfortunately, you're probably angry for all the wrong reasons.
disability
My severe hearing loss has certainly not helped my career.
oi
I struggle to grasp how much awareness could actually be raised by changing my Twitter userpic to the Wishbone Day logo for 24 hours.
Lisa Egan in
Issues,
OI,
osteogenesis imperfecta,
Wishbone Day,
child abuse,
awareness campaigns,
twittivism,
disability
May 6, 2013 at 11:30am | 45 comments
disability
Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day, an event organized to explore ableism/disablism and their larger social impacts worldwide. Disability hate crimes are just one of the many issues faced by the disability community.
suicide
There are a few topics that, as a general rule, I just refuse to discuss on the Internet. Assisted suicide/right-to-die is usually one of them.
death
There are days that the pain is so bad that I pray for sleep and I pray that I never have to wake up again.
how not to be a dick
There’s no need for you to speak more loudly and slowly, enunciate more, or mime things when you’re speaking to me
dove ads
In other words, yes, Shirley, blind people really ARE just like you.
disability
I don't have the guts to approach a guy when there are able-bodied women around, let alone actually flirt with him.
disability
Some people pay for erotic services. Some people with disabilities pay for erotic services.
anonymity
A couple of years after I started blogging, you’d pop up every so often -- always under the ever-so-clever Anonymous moniker, of course -- with a comment about how I looked or a dig at my disability.
disability
They seem to think they're joking around when they ask me how many fingers, or if I can smell them from across the room, but to me it feels similar to the bullying I experienced on the playground as a child.
kissing
I have finally heard from the man of my dreams, but my nervousness -- not my disability -- is holding me back from making my dream of a first kiss come true.
disability
I was about 17 when I learned about the social model and it radically changed how I thought about my own body.
politics
All of the barriers broken by women in politics last night are significant, but Duckworth’s is especially notable because of what she represents on so many fronts.
freeman sheldon syndrome
I was sure my physical disability was my embarrassing beauty mark. No, not beauty mark. Ugly mark.
autism
As she puts it, “Normal is just a dryer setting,” and she’s setting out to change the way people view autism, and autistics, with her campaign.
adalia rose
Videos of people with unusual disabilities are view magnets on YouTube. But what happens when the subject is a 5-year-old girl?
disability
I had unconsciously made it my mission to be sure the guys I dated never had to deal with anything real, anything that they might find gross or complicated, anything that I had previously warned them about that might come up when dealing with me.
disability
Well-meaning nondisabled people don’t realize what they’re playing into when they talk about how inspiring we are, which is perhaps all the more frustrating.
disability
In a world with limited organs available for transplant, transplant committees make harsh decisions on a regular basis about who to put on the list, and who to leave off.
