Guardian article - The high cost of living in a disabling world, 2021, Jan Grue

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Good article in Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/04/the-high-cost-of-living-in-a-disabling-world

The high cost of living in a disabling world
Illustration: Sébastien Thibault/The Guardian

Jan Grue

At times, it feels as if the disability rights movement won. After years of groundwork, 1981 was declared the International Year of Disabled Persons. I was born that year, in Oslo, Norway, and though I did not receive my first diagnosis of muscular dystrophy until I was a toddler, the coincidence is apt enough: I was born into a world that was, at last, beginning to recognise this aspect of my being in it.
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