The best Quotes and Sayings about Disabilities

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'

I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically!

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.