Jack and Tricia are wheelchair-users who had polio at a very young age. Jack had it since he was 1 years old and Tricia had hers when she was 2 years old. https://youtu.be/Pm2CH9-jUUw “I just wish that everybody will just…
“My twin sister and I were born prematurely. I was the weaker out of the two of us…It’s ironic then that I was the one who came out of it unscathed and Jenny went on to live with cerebral palsy.”…
“I went to my family and I said ‘I want to be a human being and they chose to let me be a part of our family again.” https://youtu.be/HUu6ZqSBfuA Joe, a paraplegic, didn’t always have the best relationships with his…
We all get by with a little help from our friends. https://youtu.be/O5TEyB4rlvM When Jackson Smith was stationed in Afghanistan, his friend Brian McKenna did everything he could to be a supportive friend, going so far as to bring a cardboard…
https://youtu.be/4teL36SluMI “I think my parents are a little more protective or worried even then they were before,” says Carrie, a quadriplegic since the age of 20. The stress and anxiety that often accompanies any disabling injury or illness impacts all of…
Javier was only 7 years old when his sister became a quadriplegic. https://youtu.be/ddk15G5R3hk “I don’t think it’s that much different than if she wasn’t disabled,” he shares. His family is very tight knit, and now all grown up, he has…
“It’s very important that people remember that relationships after injury are also based on the relationships that were there before injury.” https://youtu.be/IJ4tcGI47c8 Robin Dorfman is a Clinical Health Psychologist from Northwestern University Medical Center. An injury doesn’t necessarily erase problems that were…
Whether a sibling is born with or acquires a disability, it inevitably impacts the life of the other siblings. AttitudeLive from New Zealand interviewed 5 sibling groups all of whom have at least one with a disability. https://youtu.be/393ZKogwD4U A sister whose…
Cindy fell asleep at the wheel, causing her car to flip. Her family was lucky to be alive and were mostly uninjured except for her daughter, Beth, who broke her neck at C6-7. “The first days in intensive care we had…
“Helping and nurturing have always been in her nature,” Kristen says about her daughter, Evie. From taking care of her stuffed animals as a kid to assisting her teacher in the classroom, Evie is a happy helper. “There’s no doubt that…