Disability: A Parallel History

In this new Yarn Podcast Miniseries we’re going to give you a rough history of disability.

The story of Disability runs in parallel with the story of humanity itself and like the story of humanity, some of it isn’t pretty.

It involves murder, neglect, segregation and sterilisation but it’s also a story of innovation, determination and love.

Attitudes to disability today are very much products of its history. If we want to understand current practices, stereotypes and infrastructure around disability we have to revisit its past.

It’s also very much a personal history to me. I’ve got Cerebral Palsy, so in telling this story I might drop in a couple of my own first hand experiences too.