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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.
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For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.
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I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
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I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020