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Very divided societies. youve reported on, you know well. but i want to say to them, "do not make the mistakes we made." that phrase that youve now used twice implies that actually in some ways the approach to disability and people with disability is actually a more negative experience in the developed west than it is in some of the other societies you have worked in. ironically, most of the charities or ways of dealing with and supporting disabled people grew up in the 19th century. they were p...

The story of Moses at Passover, worried about how to communicate with the people of Israel, is one that is easy to relate to for many, especially individuals with special

I was the first in my year, it was the first year of my college that they took women. they had no women since 1347 and they changed that. and it is a better place as a result. that sort of massive change, you could talk about gender or sexuality, you could talk about race, is the sort of change we want to see with disability. tom shakespeare, it has been a pleasure. thank you for being on hardtalk. thank you.

That a society and the culture can do to make life so much better and easier for disabled people, i can see it applying clearly to physical impairment and disability, but how do you cope with profound mental and intellectual impairment? i have worked a lot with people with dementia and i think the same disability rights arguments apply to them. the same age—friendly cities arguments are put forward by the who. so all of the access that ive spoken about helps older people, all of the, as it wer...

Of their age, werent they? i have metjames watson and he said some incautious things, lets say. in 1963, frances crick said in the future, youd have to have a license to have children. i think they said problematic things. another one that i noted down, and i know that you have explored this territory, im sure youre familiar that james watson, part of the crick—watson team, said that seeing the bright side of disability is like seeing the bright side of poverty, ie, it does not exist. it does ...

Simply on whatever physical conditions they carry with them. exactly. and i think we would all be happier if that were the case. we can see — ill show you in the shopping centre later — everybody wants to be beautiful, everybody wants to be young. but the fact is, they will all age and they will all die. and as they age they will get more disability. so far we are talking about people born with illness and impairment, but over the life course that is the main impact. there are very few, one ...

They were notjust misguided because they had terrible science, they were also misguided because it is the randomness of humans which makes them real. after this, i am going to battersea and i will go to the shopping centre and i will see people in all their shapes and sizes and that is great and imagine if they were all the same. if they were all, i dont know, it would be a very boring place and of course many of them will have suffering in their lives. most of them. maybe all of them. but that ...

For example, mostly we go out to work and we depend on a transport system. we depend on workplaces. they are not accessible. the transport system has to be, as it were, retrofitted to be accessible. if we got it right from the start then why would there be a problem? in our conversation at the beginning we focused mostly on inherited conditions and on baseline genetics but i guess the truth is that many people will experience what it means to be impaired or disabled not at the beginning of their...

At their ease because i say, "look, its ok, we can laugh, you do not have to worry "about what you are going to say. "we will be friends." that is really important. because people, yeah, you are right. at heart, they are still worried about disability because they have been told that disability is a terrible thing. yeah, i know that in your advocacy work, and you have worked in academia, but you have also worked at the united nations and around the world in disability rights and advocacy. your p...

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