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Truth, Reconciliation, and Food

Kid asks question

on her second teaching round at a melbourn high school during one of her classes a boy asked her when she is going to start her motivational speech because she was in a wheelchair.

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Stella young talk about her experience dealing with people and the idea that it’s hard to live as a disabled person. She goes into how some people only view people with disabilities as objects of inspiration. She project images of “inspirational disabled people with captions saying positive things, she says how the images are wrong, those kids in those pictures aren't doing anything out of the ordinary they are just using their bodies, they are just created to put your worries aside. She then discusses how it’s not difficult because of our bodies or our minds but it’s or society, “disabled people are more disabled by our societies then our bodies and our bodys diagnosis”