Name: 【TED】Stella Young: I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much (I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young)
Uploaded: 2014-07-02T16:28:31.000Z
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I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing.

I went to school, I hung out with my friends,

And when I was 15, a member of my local community

And my parents said, "Hm, that's really nice,

but there's kind of one glaring problem with that.

She hasn't actually achieved anything." (Laughter)

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Dawson's Creek."

I wasn't doing anything that was out of the ordinary

I wasn't doing anything that could be considered an achievement

if you took disability out of the equation.

Years later, I was on my second teaching round

and I was about 20 minutes into a year 11 legal studies class

"Hey miss, when are you going to start doing your speech?"

about defamation law for a good 20 minutes.

You know, when people in wheelchairs come to school,

they usually say, like, inspirational stuff?"

This kid had only ever experienced disabled people

For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers

We're not real people. We are there to inspire.

and you are probably kind of expecting me

I'm going to disappoint you dramatically.

I am here to tell you that we have been lied to

that disability is a Bad Thing, capital B, capital T.

It's a bad thing, and to live with a disability

And in the past few years, we've been able

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

Or this one: "Your excuse is invalid." Indeed.

but there are a lot of these images out there.

drawing a picture with a pencil held in her mouth.

because they objectify one group of people

for the benefit of another group of people.

So in this case, we're objectifying disabled people

and think, "Well, however bad my life is,

I've lost count of the number of times that I've

wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave

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【TED】Stella Young: I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much (I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young)

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