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Disability Experiences: Writings and Perspectives

Disability Experiences: Writings and Perspectives is a collection of writings that have been submitted by our community and links to websites that share personal disability experiences and the perspectives of people with disabilities. This section offers individuals a chance to read other's ideas and thoughts. Please e-mail us if you have a story, poem or unique perspective to share.

• A Credo for Support

• "Depression - You Can Feel Better!" is the beginning chapter to Don't Make Depression Your Disability, written by Bobbie Ratcliff. Bobbie has given us a way to look at life that can turn our lives around for the better. Having sustained an injury and subsequent, illness, pain and disability, Bobbie has experienced first hand the extreme down side of disability. Bobbie and Anne, his wife of 24 years, have made their journey together which has brought them to this place and time. Now he has shared their remarkable, yet simple, everyday solutions, their "Cookbook for a Healthy Emotional Diet." With humor and humanity, he persuades us to make the most of life with his self-enlightened ideas to cope with illness and disability. Check back here at New Horizons Un-Limited soon for more chapters of his exciting article! --------© Copyright, 2006, Bobbie Ratcliff, All Rights Reserved.
  December 1, 2006

• Disability History Museum, with a goal to expand knowledge and understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities in the United States, has recently made thousands of disability stories and facts available in their online library.

• Disability is Natural is an initiative to remind everyone that having a disability is a "natural part of the human experience." They offer unique insight and perspectives through their Revolutionary Common Sense series of articles.

• Disabilities Un-Limited is a website created by Bill Micklitz, an award winning writer and speaker whom was born with Arthrogryposis, a muscle and joint disorder. His website features articles and information on his and others' life experiences.

• Dizziness and Me is an article written by Phil from Washington and submitted to New Horizons Un-Limited in which he has shared his personal, 33 year experience with a vestibular disorder, an inner ear disorder that causes severe dizziness and nausea. Phil's experience with misdiagnoses and dizziness are unfortunately common with inner ear diseases. Through Phil's experience, we can all begin to understand the complications brought to daily living with vestibular disorders. Thank you to Phil for sharing his experiences and these helpful suggestions on what people with vestibular disorders need from their health professionals and rehabilitation.
  April 13, 2006

• Disabled Poetry Online is a Place To Share Our Minds And Clear Our Minds. Read poetry shared by others on-line. You can submit your disability related poetry to the e-mail listed on this site.

• disTHIS.com offers an on-line community in which people with disabilities can sound off about issues that are important to them. Be it through poems, short stories, editorials, or essays, disTHIS encourages honesty and humor. To read others' or to share your own perspective visit, disTHIS.com.

• Exploring My World is a website that chronicles the life experiences of a woman with Cerebral Palsy. Her website offers a number of writings, including essays, short stories and poems, serving to introduce visitors to the world of disability.

• Meeting Life's Challenges is a supportive online community created by a woman with MS that has, despite severely limited mobility, lived "a remarkably unlimited life" since her diagnosis 25 years ago. The website offers practical lifestyle information, helpful strategies, and motivation for people whose lives have been affected by chronic illness and disability. The site features essays and articles from a variety of persons with disabilities as well as a number of helpful resources.

• My Brother the Olympian
  June 26, 2000

• Rehabilitation from Brain Injury
  October 26, 2004

• Response to a Commentary on the Monument Honoring President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  June 26, 2000

• Response to the NHU Editorial on Legislation
  November 30, 2000

• Tell Us Your Story is an online disability discussion forum for people with disabilities, their families, friends, caregivers and coworkers. The website offers an opportunity to share and read personal stories relating to disability experience and offers a number of discussions on issues relating to everyday living.

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