Australian - Comedian | February 24, 1982 - December 6, 2014
On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.
Stella Young
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We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.
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For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.
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The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.
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I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.
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For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.
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I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.
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I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.
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For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.
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I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.
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People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.
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If everyone's looking at me, I might as well say something interesting.
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