"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Disability, Truth, Energy, Perception

43

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."

Exlpore more Disability quotes

"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."

Andrew Greeley, American Clergyman

Disability, Learning, Now, Woman

"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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Disability, Truth, Challenge, Life

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

John Green, American Author

Disability, Music, Self, Limitation

"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."

Susan Hampshire, English Actress

Disability, Existence, Lonely, Parents

"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'."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

Disability, Empowerment, Accessibility, Inclusion

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

Annette Funicello, American Actress

Disability,

"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Disability, Truth, Energy, Perception

Explore more quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."

Psychology

"Eating healthy is expensive. Not eating healthy is expensive. One dents your pocket. The other dents your health."

Health

"Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry."

Health

"Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative."

Health

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

Society

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."

Psychology

43

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Disability quotes

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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'."

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

"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."

Explore more quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."

"Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee's smoke break."

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

"Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption - without the paperwork."

"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."

"Eating healthy is expensive. Not eating healthy is expensive. One dents your pocket. The other dents your health."

"Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry."

"Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative."

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."