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Medicare has provided healthcare coverage for older Americans and disabled persons for 50 years, and I believe that steps must be taken to ensure that it remains an option for all Americans now and into the future.
Seth Moulton
Future
Older
Believe
Ensure
All Americans
Must
Remains
Disabled
Taken
Steps
Healthcare
Coverage
Years
Provided
Option
American
Persons
Now
Medicare
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.
Stella Young
Woman
Political
Word
Invent
Ideology
Community
Late
Late Teens
Teens
Disabled
Identify
Proudly
Came
Political Ideology
Very
Early
Early 20s
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.
Stella Young
People
Understanding
Living
Complexity
Systemic
Faced
Give
Disability
Disabled
Simulation
Fails
Abuse
Discrimination
Body
Certainly
Deep
Capture
Nuance
There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.
Stella Young
Women
Consequences
Kinds
Disabled
Devastating
Over
Attitudes
Deny
Happens
Them
Agency
Bodies
Full
Marginalised
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.
Stella Young
Long
Approach
Latin
Relevant
About
Rather
Disability
Disabled
Take
Generally
Names
Talk
Terms
Conditions
Discuss
Than
Person
Social
Medical
Position
We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.
Stella Young
State
Considered
Those
Adjusted
Born
Disabled
Learn
How
Whether
Them
Bodies
Use
As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with suspicion.
Stella Young
Age
People
Young
Those
Disabled
Attracted
Taught
Suspicion
Young Age
Regarded
Us
Who
I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.
Stella Young
Life
Love
Time
People
My Life
Recording
Other
Chunk
Spent
Out
Given
My Time
Disabled
Fair
Ticking
Boxes
Doing
Australia
Quite
Forms
Really
Fortuitous
Filling
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.
Stella Young
Me
People
Other
Our
Status
Disabilities
Disabled
Proud
Which
Fiercely
Many
If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
Steve Guttenberg
You
Hero
Others
Pretty
Physically
Mentally
Disabled
Underdog
Still
Fit
We have a very disabled person in our family who is cared for by someone who lives a life most other people would find impossible, and her faith is making it a joy for her. And you can't argue with that. I mean, you can, but it's fruitless.
Tom Hollander
Life
Faith
Family
You
People
Joy
Impossible
Other
Our
Would
Find
Someone
Argue
Disabled
Most
Making
Very
Person
Fruitless
Mean
Who
Lives
Her
Cared
It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.
Tom Udall
Best
Veterans
Care
Our
Possible
Wounded
Disabled
Provide
Essential
I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
Tucker Max
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Rate
Disabled
Mature
Did
Same
I don't feel disabled, and I think everybody makes their own way in life.
Verne Troyer
Life
Own
Think
Everybody
Way
Disabled
Feel
Makes
The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.
Tony Robinson
You
Political
Statement
Disabled
Peril
Huge
Political Statement
Forgot
Your
Actor
Founding
I usually stay out of politics, but people have asked me whether the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), if passed by the Senate, will affect me personally. I'm about music, not politics, but the fact is this one has me freaked out for poor and disabled people.
Jason Becker
Politics
Music
Me
People
Will
Out
Freaked
Stay
About
Fact
Disabled
Healthcare
Passed
Affect
Senate
American
Whether
Poor
Personally
Asked
Act
My half-sister was born without a cerebellum and is completely disabled. She is my biggest motivator and inspiration, because her situation makes me realize how special life is, and I always want to work twice as hard, enjoy life twice as much so that I can enjoy it for her as well.
Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
Life
Work
Me
Enjoy Life
Situation
Enjoy
I Can
Born
Inspiration
Disabled
She
Well
Because
Without
Makes
Always
How
Motivator
Want
Biggest
Realize
Much
Hard
Special
Twice
Her
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