SMA Awareness Month – Day 22 – Why Saying “Cure” May Harm Your Child
Dominick explores the cure mentality, in relation to caregivers, and how it can affect the self esteem of children with SMA or other disabilities.
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Disability Rights
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SMA Awareness Month – Day 21 – You Can’t Cure Disability Culture
Dominick discusses the entire idea behind cure mentality, in further detail, specifically relating it to disability culture.
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SMA Awareness Month – Day 20 – The Abuse of Bargaining
Dominick discusses a type of abuse he endured, as a teenager, the abuse of bargaining.
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Hatred for One Another Hinders the Success of the LGBT and Disability Communities
Information on why the disability and LGBT communities need to work together to make the world more accepting.
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SMA Awareness Month – Day 8 – Removing the SMA Would Remove the Best Parts of Me
Dominick explains how different he would be if he did not have Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).
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SMA Awareness Month – Day 7 – I’m LIVING with SMA
Dominick explains how you can help him continue to LIVE with SMA in this vastly inaccessible world.
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SMA Awareness Month – Day 6 – Survivor’s Guilt
Survivor’s Guilt is one of those unspoken parts of having a disease like SMA. Dominick breaks down what it is.
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World on Wheels: Tackling Accessibility Issues
Dominick examines an issue he explored back in 2006, the accessibility of the world around us.
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SMA Awareness Month – Day 5 – Facing Reality
Dominick discusses how people with SMA must find the balance between being realistic about progression and the desire and drive for an independent life.
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What is “Normal” Anyway?
Dominick provides a look into the world normal, what it means and why words can be harmful.