I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young - YouTube

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• We are learning from each others' strength and endurance, not against our bodies and our diagnoses, but against a world that exceptionalizes and objectifies us.

• And that's when it dawned on me: This kid had only ever experienced disabled people as objects of inspiration.

• Yeah, we've been sold the lie that disability is a Bad Thing, capital B, capital T. It's a bad thing, and to live with a disability makes you exceptional.

• those images objectify disabled people for the benefit of nondisabled people. They are there so that you can look at them and think that things aren't so bad for you, to put your worries into perspective.