We asked seven people to keep diaries for a month to document the reality of being disabled in Britain today. Their diaries capture the reality of being disabled in Britain today: the slights, broken systems and misunderstandings that stop disabled people from living as should be their right. Photograph: Fabio De Paola for the GuardianI meet with Cobb, Grant, Langman and Gilding at Nottingham Trent University to talk about their experiences of keeping the diaries. During one trip to the shops on a busy Saturday, Cobb writes that she got “hit in the shoulders by a lot of handbags”. The failure to address these problems speaks to a persistent, deeply embedded cultural attitude around disability: that disabled people aren’t quite like “normal people”.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 06:00 UTC