Mainstreaming Disability | Dylan Alcott | TEDxSydney

[@thevoid8948]

Video: *is about disability* Video: *isn't captioned*

[@clarajohnson7366]

You're a shining light for my students to see. ''Disability with an in a Positive Light".

[@francespantalone8525]

You are my hero.Keep up the great work.I am very proud of your abilities.Great Talk

[@CrystalMouse1]

My doctor started crying when I told her I’d have to use a wheelchair because it’s too unbearable to stand on my feet for more than a few minutes. She said that once I use a wheelchair I’m condemned to a miserable life. Um...did you just hear what I said!? I’ve had horrible pain since age 13 and you’re just concerned with your view of me? You can’t cure me so let me have my independence please

[@cleangoblin2021]

Yourea badass

[@bodyfitt67]

You rock!!!! I have a son with a disability and his attitude also ROCKS..just like yours :D

[@debblackmore7460]

We are survivors sending hugs luck prayers most of all love from headway Nottingham UK you got this keep going doing amazing things stay strong stay positive stay safe keep going giving up isn't a option xx

[@DjOzKid]

This video should be shown in all schools by year two

[@lizwright2781]

Excellent - Great PRIDE I love it. I would like to interview Dylan. Onya.

[@johive]

great talk

[@bonganimapumulo8132]

Fantastic presentation mate.

[@aquae222]

No Close Captain (CC) sadly...

[@ailbhecushnan2051]

My dad could legally be registered blind and he's teaching me to drive, I have hypotonia (low muscle tone, also affects stamina) but I can swim, cycle and even play drumbs (most physically demanding thing I do) a lot of the people we know don't know about it, but we're not hiding, it's just not obvius

[@gopro_audio]

If you don't like ADA laws, simply more out of American... then you can discriminate. If you are in America and you don't comply with ADA law, you deserve felony charges.

[@rachaelmt72]

as a person who is considered 'disabled' by the 'government' and the general public because I walk with a stick because I have MS, I still cannot agree with him. I respect his attitude and his positive, can-do attitude but he forgets that he has no idea what it is to be able bodied and be able to walk or run or dance........so he could never understand why the majority of people think so fearfully of 'disability'. He has no idea how wonderful life is when you are 100% able bodied.

[@philipvarlam8763]

Your comment gave me shivers. This is so sad, your message, the way you are thinking is so sad. After i watched this uplifting and very good speech that Dylan gave, your comment hit me hard and brought me back down. I think you should delete your comment and think about why you posted it in the first place. I think you are envious about his attitude and that you're sadness has made you bitter and you feel the need to make others feel bad too.

[@hermione3muller674]

i agree with her comment and disagree with the person who asked her to take it down. it is not true that all disabled can do, many cannot because the disability is too crippling or because society puts too many hurdles or loops to jump through to get anywhere. theree was a time when i could walk and see, now i am lamost completely blind, excuse my typos, and unable to even stand up. i have been fighting for years for treatment that would have saved me from this fate but health insurance company refused to pay, so i lost my vision and my mobility. have been fighting for years for recognition of my disabiities but equally unsuccessful. no free parking or disabled parking for me, no free ticket for an accompanying person, nothing. have been fighting for rehabilitation, ie classes in computer braille and computer software for the blind to be able to finally use a comuputer myself and be able to work in my profession again but no, it is being refused to me again and again despite the fact that there have been free spaces on the courses all the time since i have started applying. the job centre just keeps refusing me the classes because they believe that i would not be able to find a job anyway because of my being disabled and employers being reluctant to hire disabled persons. so, no, it is not as greeat a life as he paints it, at least not for me and for many, many others. he is exceptionally lucky, esceptionally indeed. i have been kicked out from all family gatherings because i am the shame of the family and have to remain hidden, i am so weak that i cannot move my wheelchair but need an electric one, a wheelchair that cannot be carried up staires, so i am often stuck like last week on the platform of a station and crying for help even only produced one person after more than an hour, and we are talking hamburg main station, germany. i am not happy with his video because it totally dismisses the 24 hour pain i am suffering, the refusal of medical help by my health insurance, the refusal of the adminstration to even grant me a disabiilty recognition, i would not even get benefits anyway because in this country you do not get disability benefits when you are unable to care for yourself, how ironic, if you you are multiply disabled you are multiply denied help, great. and it is these people at the administration who do not acommodate for my needs and ask the impossible of me like fillling out forms i cannot read, who have the attitude of this guy in the video that we should be able to do. no, we cannot. we need assistance like a livelihood, a disability reecognition, medical treatment, rehabilitation, access to classes in computer braille, disability parking etc etc. i have none of those and i am sick of people telling me that i should be happy. i am angry. i am angry that this country pretends to care for the disabled when in fact my portion of disabled are clearly not cared for. i am angry when people like this guy pretend that all disabled can florish when in fact the majority like myself are being held back and denied access to the skills and equipment and permits that would allow us to florish. stop pretending that we get all those advantages, you got them because you were born like this, we do not get them. there are two classes of disabled, the privileged and the nonpriviledged. he belongs to the privileged. he could access everything he needed. i belong to the nonpriviledged, i cannot access anything i need. stop pretending that all disabled are the same. we are not. we are different. i am very unhappy about this video because it pretends that everything is ok with our disabled system when it is not. the nonpriviledged disabled are not cared for and dearly need help and acess to all the things the priviledged disabled have. it is not true that all disabled do no bother about their disability, we underpriviledged disabled do because it is not compensated, not helped, not overcome, not even recognized or acknowledged, we are left to ourslves and expected to somehow miraculously function as everyone els but we cannot. i am angry that i am expected to be able to read the paperwork sent to me. i cannot see it! no, i do not want to be treated like this, ie with the expectation that i should be able to do the same as any ablebodied person. i need access to special training and special equipment and disabled parking etc. after years of fighting, it looks like i will never ever get there. and this video is not helping.

[@sabserab]

Only 2 percent get disabled by accidents, 5 percent getting born disabled, the most people get disabled by chronic illness. And yes it sucks, suck tohave chronic pain and bod spasms, dislocating joints and spine, pressured nerves, virtigo. You´re not disabled b societ no, your own body is against you. I need a wheelchair now, can barely wheel till my arms spasm, my back and neck locks up. He is atleast healthy. I´s switch with an amputee in a second

[@hermione3muller674]

i understand where this guy comes from but i strongly disagree with much of what he says. how dare he speak for all disabled? how dare he say that no disabled person is living a miserable life in a wheelchair? he is priviledged. he is a first class disabled, honoured and supported by family, friends, coaches, his country. he has all the priviledges like disabled parking, free ticket for accompanying person etc. not every disabled person is as privileged as he is! i am multiply disabled and my life is agony. 24 hour pain with no pain killer bringing any relief, not even morphine. almost completely blind, so please excuse the typos, i cannot see a thing of what i am typing. unable to stand up, let alone walk. unable to lift my arms. severely restricted in what i can eat. unable to sit upright for extended periods of time. incontinent. etc. etc. no, it is not a happy life. i am suffering horribly. there is true misery amoung the disabled. not for everyone, sure, but there are 5e second class or third class disabled who are not as lucky as this guy. no family support , no reecognition of the disabilities by the government authorities, no disability parking, no treatment, no assistive technology etc. we are not happy but suffering both from the lack of access to medical treatment and from the lack of access to support services , recognition and equipment. it is misleading to only show the privileged disabled. there are the nonprivileged disabled like myself, and yes i need your pity and your support, i need you all to figt for people like myslf, ie to force our governments to make help acessible for us, to finally give us access to medical treamtnet, to rehabilitation, to necessary equipment, to support systems etc. and i a German living in Gemany and feel like in this respect many who become disabled later in life are refused access to all these necessities like myself. we have to change this. we need to help the nonprivileged disabled. do not be blinded by the privileged disabled who may not need your help.

[@CommiePinko101]

I'm disabled in Australia, and I agree with you. Dylan Alcott is way off the mark. He has a lot of privilege, and should not be speaking for other disabled people.

[@pmahcgop2.0]

its all just sad genetic mutation that happens to everyone... lots of people have these and its honestly something to be proud of. also to the 3 dislikers frick you

[@CommiePinko101]

I disliked, because Dylan's words dismiss the hardship many of us go through.