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Why come out as a disabled? What's the incentive for coming out and telling people you have a disability if you can pass as non-disabled?

As the saying goes, “It’s the thought that counts.” And as with all disability matters, giving gifts to disabled people calls for the right kind of thought and consideration. Here are four ways to approach choosing gifts for the disabled people in your life.

How do you create strong disabled characters? The question goads me. Where disability’s concerned, there’s so much banal, shitty writing out there. Countless authors have resorted to clichés and stereotypes when creating disabled characters, and as a disabled person myself — I have a hearing impairment in both ears — such writing frustrates and even angers me.

As a new amputee, I realize that some people are automatically uncomfortable around me and don't know what to say. Here are some things I've found helpful, f...

Disablism is generally informed by stereotypes, ignorance and false assumptions about disabled people. Because of this, social norms are often suspended in encounters between disabled and non-disabled people. A prime

What do I say to people who suspect I’m faking my disability? Today, when I parked my car, a man came up and said suspiciously, “You don't look disabled.”

It’s no more difficult to be a good friend or supportive relative to a disabled person than to anyone else. But it sometimes requires paying some extra attention to deeper motives and underlying assumptions that are corrosive, but not always obvious on the surface.

Amid calls for "humanitarian" help on energy bills, disabled people say life is unaffordable.

What this writer learned from traveling with a disabled companion.

The weather may be improving, but if you're disabled the burden of energy bills can follow you all year round. Here's what disabled Mirror readers told us