Disability is Other People

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Disability is Other People: My Superhero Story </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>is not a story about overcoming disability but living well with it. Drawing on experience and humour Richard shares everything he has learned through his triumphs and mistakes deconstructs traditional perspectives on disability and draws out the links to other oppressed communities struggling for Equality. He shows how the attitudes and behaviours of Other People are disabling forces. He considers some of the big issues he has faced along the way: Hope Death Ableism The Media and Political Correctness. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>It is not until Richard retires that he realises that volunteering and getting to know </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Other People </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>is actually the core value in life. He shows us how we can make the world a better place and offers his own advice on how to live with disability. As 14 years of austerity and the trauma of the pandemic sharpen his developing activism does he have Superpowers after all? </span></p>