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"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."
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"A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand."

"I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad."

"It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid."

"For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not."

"But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness."

"Whenever we come across 'Viklang' person, our attention goes towards their disability but we do not notice the immense capabilities and strength they have to accomplish a task. And, that is why I urge everyone to use the word 'Divyang' instead of 'Viklang'."

"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."
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"To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book."

"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."

"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."

"Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking."

"You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam."

"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them."

"An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant."
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