Tag: disabilities
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The Extra Cost of Traveling with a Disability
The Extra Cost of Traveling With a Disability Getting There: Traveling With a Disability — September Series Going away for a weekend is supposed to be fun. But before I can enjoy the trip, there is something else I have to think about: How much is this weekend actually going to cost me? Living with…
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Is This Place Really Accessible? Getting There: Traveling With a Disability — September Series When I’m thinking about going somewhere new, one of the first things I have to ask myself is: Is this place disability friendly for me? I say for me because accessibility isn’t exactly the same for every person with a disability.…
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Traveling Has Changed as My Body Has Changed
Getting There: Traveling With a Disability — September Series I’ve never really been someone who travels a lot. But when I was younger and able to move around more freely on my own, traveling looked different for me. I remember taking the train into New York City with family and friends. We could get off…
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Why Independence Doesn’t Mean Doing Everything Alone
Living Independently: The PCA Journey — Part Seven Our Beautiful Challenges — Marie W.O.W.C.P. For a long time, I thought independence meant doing everything myself. If I could do something without help, I was independent. If I needed someone to help me, somehow that felt different. As a woman with cerebral palsy who spent years…
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The Challenge of Being My Own Boss
Living Independently: The PCA Journey — Part Three Our Beautiful Challenges — Marie W.O.W.C.P. Being part of a PCA Waiver program has given me something incredibly important: choice. I have the ability to choose the people who help me and have a say in how that help is provided. That freedom is a huge part…
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The Generation In Between
Disability Pride Month Series — Marie W.O.W.C.P. Sometimes I feel like I belong to a generation that existed between two worlds. I was born after the disability rights movement had already begun changing lives, but before many of those changes fully reached everyday life. I was born after people had already started fighting for accessibility,…
