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Equity would be a real blessing

Pre-election, former Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison made his now infamous and controversial ‘blessed to have non-disabled children’ statement. I’m a disabled woman. But I get it.I might have said something similar 30 years ago as an able-bodied woman.

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Ableist, Me

Acquiring the symptoms of a progressive condition takes some getting used to but why do so many of us feel the need to cloak these changes in an ugly cape of lies (to ourselves and others), excuses and denial? Why do we cling to the old normalcy so frantically? And what harm are we doing to ourselves in the process?.

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