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“NOT ALL CRIPS ARE CREEPS” by BEN MATTLIN
A Wheel in Two Worlds – an article by Ben Mattlin
An Eye-Opening Wheelchair Malfunction – by Ben Mattlin
DISABILITY IN VOGUE? By Ben Mattlin
On the Guilty Pleasures of Computer Solitaire: A Defiant Act of Independence – By Ben Mattlin
ROLLING ROLE MODELS ON TV – By Ben Mattlin
QUIET ACTIVISM by Ben Mattlin
Nurturing Spontaneity, or Why I Love “The Odd Couple” by Ben Mattlin
ALIVE AT 55! By Ben Mattlin
Mastering The ‘Pee-Math’
No Straws? No Thanks!
When I Write About My Life…
“Reasonable Accommodations” For All – Not Just Me
Disability and Disease Aren’t Interchangeable
To Hell and Back: Disability Wisdom
THE DOWNSIDE OF “THE UPSIDE”
Learning to Rock AND Roll
GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE—NO, REALLY!
Disabled People Like Me Have Always Been Vulnerable To disease. Let Us Show You The Ropes.
HELP! I THINK I CREATED A WORD!
A Tale of Two Pretties
“NOT ALL CRIPS ARE CREEPS” by BEN MATTLIN
A Wheel in Two Worlds – an article by Ben Mattlin
An Eye-Opening Wheelchair Malfunction – by Ben Mattlin
DISABILITY IN VOGUE? By Ben Mattlin
On the Guilty Pleasures of Computer Solitaire: A Defiant Act of Independence – By Ben Mattlin
ROLLING ROLE MODELS ON TV – By Ben Mattlin
QUIET ACTIVISM by Ben Mattlin
Nurturing Spontaneity, or Why I Love “The Odd Couple” by Ben Mattlin
ALIVE AT 55! By Ben Mattlin
Mastering The ‘Pee-Math’
No Straws? No Thanks!
When I Write About My Life…
“Reasonable Accommodations” For All – Not Just Me
Disability and Disease Aren’t Interchangeable
To Hell and Back: Disability Wisdom
THE DOWNSIDE OF “THE UPSIDE”
Learning to Rock AND Roll
GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE—NO, REALLY!
Disabled People Like Me Have Always Been Vulnerable To disease. Let Us Show You The Ropes.
SMA and Me: To Cure or Not To Cure, That is the Question
HELP! I THINK I CREATED A WORD!
Commentary: ‘Me Before You’ perpetuates idea that the disabled should consider suicide
A Tale of Two Pretties
Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity (Skyhorse: 2012
In Sickness and in Health: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Inter-abled Romance (Beacon Press, 2018).