Tonight we hear from Tiffany Yu, founder of Diversibility and author of the Anti-Ablest Manifesto.

After a childhood accident left her with a permanent disability, Tiffany decided to dedicate her life to creating communities where people with disabilities of every kind can be seen, supported, and celebrated.

Here is her brief but spectacular take on embracing disability pride.

November 29th, 1997 was the day that everything changed.

My body changed, my life changed, my whole family changed.

I was nine years old.

And on a car ride home with my dad and a couple of my siblings, he lost control of the car.

I sustained a handful of injuries, including permanently paralyzing one of my arms,

breaking a couple bones in one of my legs that would leave me as a temporary wheelchair user for about four months,

and much later being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder,

a mental health disability.

On top of all of that, my dad also passed away.

After about a four-month rehabilitation period, I returned back to school,

and I was thrust into this environment where I was still grieving the loss of my dad

and trying to better understand

this new body that I had, this disabled body.

Bias shows up for disabled people the most is through exclusion. It's through not even being

thought about. So some of my hardest memories growing up weren't necessarily things that people

overtly said to me. It was the things that they didn't

do. And one of the things I noticed was that people were pretty uncomfortable around my disability,

and as a result, they were uncomfortable with me. And at the time, all I really wanted was to be

accepted and understood and seen. For about 12 to 13 years after the car

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