What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...
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Diagnosis can be a tetchy subject in neurodiversity. Diagnosis isn’t distributed fairly across gender, class, race, age or sexuality. There are implicit biases built into diagnostic criteria and ...
A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...
Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...
Health and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical ...