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Coming back from a deadly illness and stroke is big enough challenge in itself, but the equal challenge that many don’t think about is having to survive with the disabilities from that incident, in a world that does not make any space for disability.
That is what Lisa Cox has had to do and not only has she manage that, she has made it her mission to remove the barriers and systemic injustice faced by people with a disability,
Lisa Cox OAM is an author, university researcher, TEDx speaker and internationally awarded thought leader. Her work is focused on changing social attitudes about disability using world's most powerful industries - like media.
In this episode she shares:
- Her early life
- What happened when she had a stroke at 24
- Her first memories of this experience
- How she found out her leg would be amputated
- How she had to relearn how to do basic everyday tasks
- Her worst day in recovery
- The process of coming to grips with what happened
- What happened once she was out of hospital
- Getting back into the gym
- The process of balancing grief and gratitude
- How because of her disability she met her husband
- Teaching herself to type again with her new fingers
- Having perspective
- Getting back on the dating scene
- The social expectation that she had to lower her standards to find someone
- What shopping for a wedding dress with her disability was like
- The ableism she encounters in life now
- How her now husband was patted on the back for proposing to a disabled woman
- What life looks like now
- Her work in rebranding disabilities
Key Quotes
“There's this idea that once you acquire a disability your life will be tragic.”
“All of my organs shut down and every cell in my boy died.”
“I realised I had a tonne of internalised ableism.”
More about Lis
Find out more via her website.
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If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au
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