We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

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

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

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

In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.