Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

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• Stella Young:

  I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing

• Stella Young:

  For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not r

• Stella Young:

  I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me th

• Stella Young:

  I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the socia

• Stella Young:

  I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong,

• Stella Young:

  I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent th

• Stella Young:

  We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don

• Stella Young:

  For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared

• Stella Young:

  I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get

• Stella Young:

  People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'crip