Introduction
There are many different ways to identify with disability, and how you choose to identify is personal and unique to you.
You may:
- Identify as having a disability because it allows you to ask for help or support to complete your goals
- Identify as having a disability to share your story to help others learn from it
- Know you have to do things a little bit differently than others, but do not know or use the technical name of your disability
- Identify as having a disability created by the barriers in the community
You may not:
- See yourself as a person with a disability, even if you were born with a medical condition
- Identify as a person with a disability at all because of some of the negative thoughts and ideas about disability in our society