Jordon Milroy: ‘Wow, I’m the lucky one’
“My cerebral palsy may be severe, but some days I’m the lucky one. I come home to my wife and go: ‘Wow, I’m the lucky one.’” — Jordon Milroy, disability advisor at Canterbury University.
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Is this the best we can do?
“There’s an attitude that disabled people should be grateful for what we get, that we should be satisfied with what the system offers us, because it’s better than it was in the bad old days when we were all institutionalised.” — Lusi Faiva.
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Lusi Faiva: ‘Freedom is acceptance of who I am’
“I think that if I had stayed in Kimberley for any longer, my life would’ve been worse. I wouldn’t have had the freedom that I later experienced to explore my own life. I wouldn’t be the Lusi I am today.” — Lusi Faiva.
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