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A Lifetime of Work, A Disability Used Against Him
CW: Discrimination For 35 years, Paul Rooney walked the same six blocks to Schuyler Elementary School in Kearny, New Jersey. There, he swept floors, cleaned bathrooms, picked up pizza boxes, and kept classrooms organized. His job gave him purpose and routine. Rooney has intellectual disabilities due to a childhood head injury and epilepsy. He took…
For Leon and Otis: A Call to Do Better
CW: Fillicide & Suicide The tragic murder-suicide in Mosman Park, Perth, Australia, where two parents took the lives of their autistic sons, their pets, and then themselves, forces society to confront the gaps in its support systems. It is heartbreaking, but it also highlights a larger issue: families pushed to their limits by inadequate disability…
This Time, We Were Heard
Every now and then, the news brings us something that feels like a sigh of relief instead of just another headline. That’s what happened during the latest budget negotiations. Congress rejected a series of proposed cuts to federal disability programs. These cuts would have changed everything from special education to independent living services, which millions…
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