Women with disabilities often talk about establishing intimate relationships, but they receive strong messages that they are not suitable intimate partners. The quality of interpersonal and marital ...
Purpose is an aspect of disability that many people struggle with. Developmental psychologist Erik Erikson believed that adults’ lives are enriched by the knowledge that they are contributing to their ...
This June is the second anniversary of one of the most horrific and traumatic times of my life. After several weeks in the ICU and almost dying several times, I came home from the hospital with an ...
When two people with a disability fall in love, it’s not a tragedy, compromise or some inspirational story waiting to happen. It’s just love — messy, beautiful, human love. The world, however, doesn’t ...
Like many girlies with a VPN and a Netflix account, I’m currently rewatching Sex and the City. And the further I get into the series, the more obvious it becomes that – problematic moments aside – ...
I’m a 40-year-old man and never married, although I was in a committed relationship for about ten years with the same woman. We didn’t marry mainly because her father didn’t approve of me. I’m ...
The Down Syndrome Foundation Nigeria and a coalition of advocacy groups have issued a fresh demand for the full inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities in all matters concerning their ...