I think that's where it comes into play, when you are just looking at a document or whatever and you see the word "disability." Does that automatically trigger something in you that denies someone their personhood?

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up working on it, and she recognized that I had a flair for certain things, and we've worked through it together so that the writing could be really good. It was the perfect partnership, just finding my literary voice and figuring out how comedy translates to the written word.

Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.