5 Reasons You Should Celebrate Disability Pride Month If You Have a Disability
Disability Pride Month is here, and as someone living with cerebral palsy, I’m proud to be part of a community full of acceptance, inclusion, and diversity. Here are five reasons why we should celebrate Disability Pride Month as people with disabilities.
1. Our stories of disability can connect us during Disability Pride Month.
As members of the disability community, we all have different stories to share with the world. I have learned that while we all have different stories about our disabilities, telling them can connect us with other people with disabilities.
2. Disability Pride Month can give us a voice as people with disabilities.
Celebrating Disability Pride Month can eliminate the stigma that comes with having disabilities and the misconceptions about people with disabilities. People might assume that these misconceptions are how our lives really are — even though they’re not. During Disability Pride Month, we can spread awareness about these misconceptions in order to encourage others not to stereotype the disability community.
3. Disability Pride Month can teach people about everyday life with a disability.
Disability is a part of many of our everyday lives. Many people with disabilities live their lives to the fullest extent possible despite the obstacles they may face. In a lot of ways, our lives are just like everyone else’s, and we have so much to offer society as a whole. This month is a great time to share how much we can do every day.
4. Disability Pride Month can gives us a chance to come together as people with disabilities.
Disability is everywhere. People with disabilities come from all different parts of the world, and this is a great month to celebrate each other’s strengths no matter where we’re from. We may come from different backgrounds, but our shared experience of being people with disabilities comes with many strengths and abilities that we can celebrate together.
5. Disability Pride Month can give us the opportunity to express how we feel about our disabilities.
Disability Pride Month can empower us as people with disabilities to be who we truly are without feeling ashamed or embarrassed. Maybe people haven’t always understood our disabilities, or we’ve had a hard time accepting our differences, but this is our time to feel strong and proud.
Disability Pride Month is the perfect time to recognize diversity and acceptance in the disability community. The world shines more brightly with disability pride, so what are you waiting for? Celebrate Disability Pride Month in a way that makes you feel good!
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Tylia L. Flores is a twenty-eight-year-old born with Spastic Cerebral Palsy. Despite her condition that affects her mobility, she does not allow it to affect her will and determination to make a difference in the world. Through her many life challenges and obstacles, she discovered her passion for writing. Tylia’s goal in life is to share her stories with the world. In doing so, she hopes to help others with disabilities realize that they, too, have the potential to make their dreams come true. Tylia is not only an author. She’s a radio show personality and a disability activist. Tylia has written about disability-related topics for Yahoo Life, Your Tango, The Mighty, ReadUnwritten.com, Words Between Coasts Project, Wednesday, Spilwords, and Goble Thrive. Worth Living Among her other appearances are Disability on the Spectrum and Why I was Afraid of Sexuality. Previously, Tylia was nominated to Diversabilities list of the most influential Disability Impacts of 2022. Additionally, Tylia holds the position of chairman in the creative director role for the North American Association Of Cerebral Palsy Advocates. She serves as a mentor for the Disability EmpowHer Network as well. Tylia also works for Write It Up Publishing as a sensitivity reader focusing on disability representation. Tylia has also been involved in many movie press releases for Samuel Goldwyn Films Come as you are Piece of me which was the short film directed and written by award winning filmmaker Bruna Cabral as well as the film adaptation of the book Calvin can’t fly by Jenifer Burnes Tylia is also a keynote speaker at 2020’s Cerebral Palsy Awareness conference. She has also been a guest speaker at Northeastern State University Broken Arrow where she talks to college students about disability and inclusion in education. She has also been a guest speaker at Plantation Middle School, where she discussed inclusion and disability with classmates. Tylia is fully certified in Education for All: Disability, Diversity, and Inclusion through Cape Town University. She’s also certified in Understanding Diversity and Inclusion through Purdue University. She’s also certified in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Tylia hosts the Stomping On cerebral Palsy radio show with DJ Ty on Asheville FM with DJ Mouse during the Come On In the Kitchen segment once a month she also helps the staff behind the scenes, help bring awareness to disability awareness and inclusion within the radio broadcasting industry .
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