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" Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought. "

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" Believe me, people with disabilities are just as concerned about benefit fraud as anyone else. Money spent on those who are not in need is money that isn't being spent on vital services to support us in the community. "

" In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly disabled at all. I still have an impairment, and there are obviously some very restrictive things about that, but the impact of disability is less. "

" Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. "

" We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives. "

" The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do. "

" Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we like to eat out at restaurants, go on trips, buy nice things, not to mention pay rent and meet the cost of living. "

" It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you. "

" For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go. "

" I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn't be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access. "

" I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile. "

" Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated. "

" I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work. "

" The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us. "

" 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. "

" I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. "

" The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards. "

" I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either. "

" Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history. "

" I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia. "

" The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder. "

" 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. "

" People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S. "

" My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me. "

" Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness. "

" Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right. "

" Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for. "

" I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world. "

" The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand. "

" My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. "

" I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism. "