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How to Emotionally Cope with Having Disabilities

By Wikihow Contributors — 2022

Having a disability can be really hard, but there are many ways to accept your circumstance. In this article, you’ll learn how to cope with having disabilities.

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Please Don’t Call Me “Wheelchair-Bound.”

What I’m hoping to do here is help portray the incapacitated form in an optimistic light and defy the labels enforced upon us by society.

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Sandy Pennington
2017
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The Body Neutrality Movement as an Alternative to Body Positivity?

Body neutrality, I think, has the power to be really useful in particular to people with disabilities, especially those with chronic pain or people with progressive diagnoses.

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Aspen Anderson
2021
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10 Body Positive Instagrammers with Disabilities You Should Follow Immediately

Although body positivity urges acceptance of all kinds of bodies, the movement still has room for improvement. Notably, people with disabilities, who through inaccessibility and lack of representation are often made to feel “other” by non-disabled folks.

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Nina Matti
2017
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How the Body Positivity Movement Left Us Disabled Women Behind

“Body positivity is all about having a good relationship with your body.” Well that’s what everyone keeps telling me. The only problem is, if I told anyone about the way my body treats me, they would tell me it’s a relationship I need to get the hell out of.

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Jennifer Richards
2017
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Plus Us: Does Your Body Positivity Waver on Ableist?

Body positivity has begun to leave behind some of the people who spoke it into existence — among them is the disabled community.

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Gianluca Russo
2022
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7 Seemingly Empowering Body-Positive Phrases That Actually Reinforce Ableism

Often, body positivity and fat activism exclude disabled people. It’s past time to change that.

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Aubrey Gordon
2020
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