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What It’s Like To Live With Sickle-Cell
When Damian Jackson was a young man, some lawyers helped his family out. “I admired them,” he remembers. “They were smart, and they helped people out. I thought it would be a good thing to go into if I...
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The Underwater World Where Disability Doesn’t Exist
If Dave Hosick believes in signs, it’s because on the day he broke his neck playing rugby he missed quite a few. “It was like the planets were aligned,” the fifty-three-year-old from Brighton, Colorado...
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The High Cost of Grandma’s Cooking
For James Burge, childhood tastes like his great grandmother’s lemon cake. His earliest memories are of baking, his small hands carefully measuring out flour, fat, and sugar; his great-grandmother...
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Jumping For Her Life
According to Lucie Linder, sometimes you have to do the most ballsy thing in order to find yourself. While this sounds like something you’d read on a motivational poster, after a few minutes in Lucie’s...
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With Or Without A Wheelchair, The Funniest Kid On The Block
Three minutes into our Skype interview and Steve Way is already railing against the system. He’s in the process of moving out of his parents’ place in Rutherford, New Jersey, and into an apartment with...
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Why The World Needs More Disabled Superheroes
In the comic book multiverse, anything’s possible. Characters with X-ray vision, superhuman strength or invisibility occupy each page and no one bats an eyelid. However, despite their extraordinary...
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The Sight-Challenged Survivor Of 9/11
Michael Hingson’s memoir, Thunder Dog. Blind since birth, Michael Hingson’s parents raised him the same way as his sighted brother, encouraging him to explore his neighborhood and even ride a bicycle....
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The Treasure Hunters: Geocaching When You’re Disabled
Ed Manley gazed up the mountain. He could see the peak, where the treasure was stashed. And boy, did he want that treasure. But as a one-legged man with weight issues, with crutches and a body that...
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How Chronically Ill Communities Can Fight Online Hate
Mike Robinson isn’t one to shy away from an online debate. But he was forced to change his approach after an email quite literally floored him. The email pinged into his inbox after a robust Facebook...
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7 Continents. 2 World Records. 5% Vision. 100% Willpower
Photo: Mark Conlon, World Marathon Challenge Sinead Kane narrowed her eyes and scanned the joggers around her. She had a little over a mile to go in her first marathon and she had a firm goal: to...
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Unearthly Pursuits
When Courtney Lane was five, a relative took her to visit a New Orleans cemetery. Tracing her fingers over the marble statues and tombs, the impressionable youngster fell in love with the gothic...
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Virtuoso Of The Serrated Blade
When you live in an apartment building, you get to know your neighbors’ domestic habits. The blaring of a television, the odd argument or the sounds of cooking can become a familiar backdrop to your...
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Conversation With A Blind Biohacker
Most of us tend to think of our brains as a fixed entity, a blueprint mapping out a set neurological pathway through our lives. But that’s not quite accurate, says Victor Misfud. The discovery that...
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Climbing To Heal
The wind flung the rain sideways and visibility was nil. For the umpteenth time that day, Nikki Bradley pulled her crutch out of the mud. Bending over, she plunged her hand into the mire and retrieved...
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The Texas Survivalist Who Lost His Sight
Jutting out of the arid western Texas landscape, the Davis Mountains are a rocky oasis. The ridges and peaks of volcanic rock form a sky island; a cooler wetter landscape than the flat desert...
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Why The World Needs More Disabled Superheroes
In the comic book multiverse, anything’s possible. Characters with X-ray vision, superhuman strength or invisibility occupy each page and no one bats an eyelid. However, despite their extraordinary...
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The Treasure Hunters: Geocaching When You’re Disabled
Ed Manley gazed up the mountain. He could see the peak, where the treasure was stashed. And boy, did he want that treasure. But as a one-legged man with weight issues, with crutches and a body that...
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How Chronically Ill Communities Can Fight Online Hate
Mike Robinson isn’t one to shy away from an online debate. But he was forced to change his approach after an email quite literally floored him. The email pinged into his inbox after a robust Facebook...
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7 Continents. 2 World Records. 5% Vision. 100% Willpower
Photo: Mark Conlon, World Marathon Challenge Sinead Kane narrowed her eyes and scanned the joggers around her. She had a little over a mile to go in her first marathon and she had a firm goal: to...
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Unearthly Pursuits
When Courtney Lane was five, a relative took her to visit a New Orleans cemetery. Tracing her fingers over the marble statues and tombs, the impressionable youngster fell in love with the gothic...
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