Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.
I just see myself as a driver. The disability plays a part but I don't see myself as disabled.
The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.
I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach to disability, and so long Latin names for congenital conditions are not relevant.
If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body.
Disabilities are a very relative condition, it is something that defines a situation, but if you can't jump over the problem then you can certainly go around it.
