By Kendra Cherry — 2020
The need to belong, also known as belongingness, refers to a human emotional need to affiliate with and be accepted by members of a group.
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We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
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When I walk into a room, most people see me as confident and ready to take on the world. As an engineer in the aerospace industry, that’s the persona I would like them to see. But in reality, I’m most likely experiencing a serious level of anxiety stimulated by my invisible disability.
Where does your organisation sit in relation to disability and neurodiversity on the Belonging Continuum?
I couldn’t keep “proving everyone wrong” and still do all the things I wanted to do with my life.
This is not about meeting criteria and ticking boxes, it’s about finally creating the generous, plural and radical art world that many of us want and need.
The ongoing dialogue I have with my own perspective and emotions is the biggest job I’ve ever undertaken. Exploring this internal give-and-take forces me to grow in surprising ways.
Often, disabled people have their disability treated, but they don’t have their emotional or spiritual needs addressed.
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Depression and suicidal ideation are more likely among people with disabilities due to factors like abuse, isolation, and stressors related to poverty, among others.
Adults with disabilities report experiencing frequent mental distress almost 5 times as often as adults without disabilities.
The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.