Disability
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Depression is the number one cause of
disability
in women in the world today.
Today, I will tell human stories of bionic integration; how electromechanics attached to the body, and implanted inside the body are beginning to bridge the gap between
disability
and ability, between human limitation and human potential.
This simple but powerful idea was a call to arms, to advance technology for the elimination of my own disability, and ultimately, the
disability
of others.
Technology had eliminated my disability, and allowed me a new climbing prowess.
As a young man, I imagined a future world where technology so advanced could rid the world of disability, a world in which neural implants would allow the visually impaired to see.
Sadly, because of deficiencies in technology,
disability
is rampant in the world.
This gentleman does not have any leg condition, any
disability.
It's not well appreciated, but over half of the world's population suffers from some form of cognitive, emotional, sensory or motor condition, and because of poor technology, too often, conditions result in
disability
and a poorer quality of life.
We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend
disability
through technological innovation.
Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end
disability.
Disability
in our age should not prevent anyone from living meaningful lives.
In March of 2006, police interrogated Brendan Dassey, a 16-year-old high school student with an IQ around 70, putting him in the range of intellectual
disability.
Some of our struggles are things we're born to: our gender, our sexuality, our race, our
disability.
I wasn't doing anything that could be considered an achievement if you took
disability
out of the equation.
I am here to tell you that we have been lied to about
disability.
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.
You may have seen images like this one: "The only
disability
in life is a bad attitude."
I use the term "disabled people" quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
It's because of the lie, it's because we've been sold this lie that
disability
makes you exceptional.
I really think that this lie that we've been sold about
disability
is the greatest injustice.
And that quote, "The only
disability
in life is a bad attitude," the reason that that's bullshit is because it's just not true, because of the social model of
disability.
I really want to live in a world where
disability
is not the exception, but the norm.
Disability
doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
One of the things I can do because I'm autistic — it's an ability rather than a
disability
— is I've got a very, very vivid imagination.
It can also be about class, education,
disability.
She had to file for
disability.
Instead of blaming parents for causing autism, Asperger framed it as a lifelong, polygenetic
disability
that requires compassionate forms of support and accommodations over the course of one's whole life.
Crucially, Asperger viewed autism as a diverse continuum that spans an astonishing range of giftedness and
disability.
However, after all I had been through, I still couldn't shake the belief that nobody could truly see beyond my
disability
and accept me for who I am.
A nurse told me, "I didn't qualify for short-term
disability
because my pregnancy was considered a preexisting condition.
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