Becoming Disabled Roughly one in five Americans lives with a disability. So where is our pride movement?

Our stroke associations should be leading such a movement but NO, all they do is the 'happy talk' version. Everything in stroke is just fine because we have all this prevention information. F.A.S.T. works and tPA is the miracle drug that magically reverses the stroke completely. Total lies.
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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

DISABILITY AUG. 19, 2016

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Not long ago, a good friend of mine said something revealing to me: “I don’t think of you as disabled,” she confessed.

I knew exactly what she meant; I didn’t think of myself as disabled until a few decades ago, either, even though my two arms have been pretty significantly asymmetrical and different from most everybody else’s my whole life.

My friend’s comment was meant as a compliment, but followed a familiar logic — one that African-Americans have noted when their well-meaning white friends have tried to erase the complications of racial identity by saying, “I don’t think of you as black,” or when a man compliments a woman by saying that he thinks of her as “just one of the guys.”

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I'm sure my friends don't consider me disabled, I'm always the last one at parties, never say no to any adventure.