Tag: disability rights

Society does not treat disabled people with the compassion, respect or listening ear with which it treats our abusers.

These hashtags should not be seen as harmful to the NHS. Instead, they should be seen as an opportunity to listen to patients, listen to disability activists, and instigate reform that could change the NHS for the better.

In an age where cuts to support are justified by shifting the goalposts of ‘need’ , the Paralympics are held up as an example of what all disabled people ‘could’ achieve with a little bit of spunk and a can-do attitude.

I will not stand by and watch the bastardisation of a word that is part of my very definition.