betterasgold:
I was sad earlier
but then I realized just how lucky I am to be alive and apart of this fantastic network of human potential and how great and beautiful the world is and how I am very fortunate to have such wonderful people close to me
Even though I’m not perfect and a lot of people consider my existence to be sub-optimal based on my diseases
my quality of life is pretty damn high because
well
I love life
and then I stopped being sad.
I say: and that my friend is how you achieve a new level of awesome.
"I am pro-choice, but I have a lot of difficulty with people who abort disabled children because they don’t think they could handle parenting a disabled child — or just because they want a “perfect” child. My feeling is that if you don’t think you can handle parenting a disabled child, you shouldn’t become a parent at all, because you might have a typical child who then becomes disabled through illness or injury, and then you’ve got to step up.
One of the things I find so troubling about prenatal testing is this idea that you can protect yourself against having a disabled child — as though we’re not all one illness or injury away from disability. It’s a symptom of our culture’s full-scale denial that difficulty and fragility are the hallmarks of life, not its pitiful exceptions."
— Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg (via heartkind)
disabilityrightsinternational:
I cannot wait for the conference tomorrow! Keynote address by Chris Waddell- the first unassisted paraplegic to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro!!!
