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Filed under: Themes, The UpDown Report

“We take care of our dental health, but we don’t take care of our mental health.”

—Howie Mandel

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Filed under: Campaign Watch

“Social media has the potential to provide an array of new opportunities to people with disabilties. But when it comes to sites such as Twitter, more needs to be done…”

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Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries

“I want to see the companies that make these video games make them accessible so that people like myself can enjoy them too.”

—Stevie Wonder, while presenting the top honor at the 2009 Video Game Awards (which went to The Beatles: Rock Band)

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Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries, Campaign Watch

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Stevie Wonder is a UN Messenger of Peace!

(And he's got an awesome sense of humour too)

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Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal, Campaign Watch, Irked Videos

“On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; ‘Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?’ For a while God said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly: ‘I certainly did something about it. I made you.’”

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Filed under: Product Placement

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[Via the Rolling Rains Report]

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Filed under: Regular Contributors, Donna Williams, Themes, Auties & Aspies

By now, you all know Donna Williams. Here’s a poem called “Butterflies” that Donna wrote recently.

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if someone takes your disabilities and makes them your
gilded cage
then you take charge of your disabilities like never before
for they are your fallibility, the keys to your cage

a key you allowed someone else to call theirs
because they taught you this was love and caring
and in the light of day you realise it had nothing to do
with you

so you look in the mirror and say, wow, there’s a fool
and brush off the dust and say, ok, so the world is full of
fools so I’m in good company

and you look at your life and say, wow, there’s an island
but islands can build bridges

and you look at your smile and say
wow, I’d forgotten I could wake up with this

and you look at your time and say
you ain’t Florence Nightingale, so follow that smile
because a heart shouldn’t be heavy
it should be light
because a heavy heart will never fly
and butterflies can.

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(Holiday tip: Nothing says "I love you" like original art!)

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(With a name like Donna and The Aspinauts, how can you resist?)

Read Donna’s blog and visit her website

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Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board

Here now is a truly, truly beautiful essay—titled “My wheelchair makes me invisible.”

It was written by Toronto’s Jennifer Wilding (who temporarily needs a wheelchair to get around), and originally published in the Globe and Mail and on theglobeandmail.com:

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