Having A Disability Quotes

#1. One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.

Stephen Hawking

#2. In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

Peter Singer

#3. I don't have a dis-ability, I have a different-ability.

Robert M. Hensel

#4. Every time I can't tell where someone's calling me from in a room and every time I accidentally start to put my earbuds in both ears I think about you.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.

Shelley D Terrell

#6. Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

Stella Young

#8. It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Jim Abbott

#9. The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

J.G. Farrell

#10. I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

Arthur Bradford

#11. Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.

Charles Dickens

#12. Physically, mentally, emotionally
it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

Patrick Carman

#13. So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

Robert Sternberg

#14. Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.

Stuart Duncan

#15. My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

Rick Hansen

#16. If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

Peter J. Carroll

#17. Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

Nikki Rowe

#19. Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

Nick Vujicic

#20. There's nothing fun about stuff like estate planning, getting mammograms, or talking to a guy about long term disability insurance, but do it anyway. Trust me, the stress of not having done the above is prematurely aging.

Jen Lancaster

#21. A troubled life beats having no life at all

Richard M. Cohen

#22. The greatest disability in life is having a bad attitude.

Chris Vonada

#23. Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

Jacob Hacker

#24. 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, much, very much, has been given me ...

Helen Keller

#25. And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

Dominique Wilkins

#26. The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people.

Jose Alaniz

#27. In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.

George Packer

#28. It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,
than the limitations society tries to place upon them.

Robert M. Hensel

#29. I mean," Minnie continued, "I don't have a problem with anyone who has a disability and wants to find a cure. But I'm good." "Don't you get it?" Flexis argued, "I'm giving you the chance to be normal!" "Your definition of normal severely contradicts mine," Minnie quietly said. Victor's

Burgandi Rakoska

#30. I feel like support is what anyone with a disability to overcome needs

Amy Rankin

#31. And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

Andrew Solomon

#32. It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

Saul Bellow

#33. What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.

J. David Smith

#34. Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

Stella Young

#35. Something about an inner value, about love; the love that shone from him as if from some kind of a beacon.

Bryan Islip

#36. It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Patricia Heaton

#37. If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#38. I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability.

C. JoyBell C.

#39. 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.

Stella Young

#40. These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Daniel H. Wilson

#41. If your child has a disability, a problem of any kind, do not become so wrapped up with the problem that you neglect the child. Your child needs your unconditional love far more than anything else - far more than any medical care, no matter how necessary. Far

D. Ross Campbell

#42. Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.

Sander Levin

#43. Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.

Nina Easton

#44. Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

Mallory Ortberg