Inspire change in the disability community

There’s more we can do to inspire change in our community. Tonight’s book event helped me realize that.

I just came back from an understanding our differences book event, where an amazing, 14 year old girl talked about her book, Mia Lee is Wheeling through Middle School. It’s amazing that at 14 years old, she has already written a book.

She talked about the book and her own life expectancies, and I related to a lot of what she said. For example she doesn’t like when people judge her on her disability first. I feel the same way. When we judge people on their disability, 1. It makes them feel bad, and 2. We don’t really take the time to get to know them. 

The second thing she said that I think was important was that there is still more we can do. Because people will disabilities get marginalized half the time, they shouldn’t. They are just a normal human being on this earth, and they deserve the same amount of respect, and it’s really not fair that they are being marginalized just because of their differences.

There is still more we can do to help people with disabilities have an equal opportunity. I will not stop advocating for this issue, because I think it’s a very important issue.