Sophie Morgan on life after a car crash, ableism and otherism

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sophie Morgan speaks openly and powerfully to Anna and Polly about navigating life after a car crash - she’s clear it wasn’t an ‘accident’ - at the age of 18. Overnight her life changed and her access to the world shifted. She speaks clearly about her strength as a Disabled woman but also the weakness of a world not set up for basic access. Access to the London Underground. Access to an EasyJet flight. She wants to open the world to otherism - not patronising or Molly coddling anyone who is Disabled. To treat her as a human. She’s vehemently against shaming anyone who makes a mistake and wants to open your eyes and heart to growing, to understanding Disability and to centre her outside of her mobility aid. It’s a heartfelt - and in places heartbreaking - call to arms for humans to be, well, human. And for the world - at the very least - to be more accessible to everyone. On a personal note, this episode meant a great deal to us as Polly opens up about her experience as a mother of beautiful Disabled twins, Fox and Lili. Expect to laugh as much as you cry and - on an essential level - to learn how to raise children that aren’t ableist. Original music by Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:10.0	Uh,
0:11.0	Uh, are you ready, you're pulling?
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready.
0:18.0	Let's do this.
0:19.0	Hold on, wait a second, Let me put my headphones on.
0:21.1	Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
0:23.0	There I am.
0:26.6	What was that noise?
0:28.6	You never know how we're going to start an episode of Dirty Motherpucker.
0:35.3	There we are.
0:36.6	Cliffhanger there.
0:39.9	Anna Whitehouse here, the founder of Motherpucker.
0:43.8	I'm joined by Polly. I have to think who you were then.
0:46.8	Thanks. Polly, Hazelwood. Thanks, mate. All right, my lovelies.
0:57.4	In the house. So we have just got back from a trip to L.A. and I'm not going to lie. I hate myself for saying this,
1:02.0	but you know when you have children and you go on a flight and you just think, I need the good grace of the people around me. And it's traumatic and it's intense. One of them kicks off,
1:07.9	you know, kicks the seat in front of you. I remember a friend once baking cupcakes for the 40 people around her children because they were so intense.
1:15.0	She just went around and looked them in the eye and she just went, I'm sorry for what's about to happen.
1:18.2	God, that's intense.
1:19.3	But then she said the children didn't do anything, so she looked really with the protective.
1:21.8	I'm sorry, if somebody came up to me with a cupcake on a flight and said, I'm sorry for what's about to happen. I shit myself and think great,
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