Role Models
When I was an adult I had no adult disabled role models at all. I didn't think that I would miraculously stop being disabled when I grew up, as I know some disabled children have done. Rather it was that the future had a blurred, dark quality to it, formless, like walking into an unlit tunnel or a London pea-souper. In the event I had to make it up as I went along with no evidence at all that it was possible to be disabled, grown up and have a decent live. Sue Napolitano
This piece first appeared in Telling Our Own Stories: reflections on family life in a disabling world 2000 (Published by Parents with Attitude, Sheffield).
Role Models © Sue Napolitano 2000.