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    Stella Young

    Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

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    I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

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    In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - 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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    I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

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    My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

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    No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

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    We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

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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. And in fact, I am sitting on this stage looking like I do in this wheelchair, and you are probably kind of expecting me to inspire you.

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    I am not here to inspire you. I am here to tell you that we have been lied to about disability. Yeah, we've been sold the lie that disability is a Bad Thing, capital B, capital T. It's a bad thing, and to live with a disability makes you exceptional. It's not a bad thing, and it doesn't make you exceptional.

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    The word 'special', as it is applied to disability, too often means 'a bit shit'.

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    We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.