By Ben Mattlin
In the first few days of this year, I was rushed to the emergency room. "We need help," I'd gasped to my wife before she dialed 911.
Apr 4, 2018
To Hell and Back: Disability Wisdom
“NOT ALL CRIPS ARE CREEPS” by BEN MATTLIN
The esteemed Public Radio host John Hockenberry and world-famous artist Chuck Close were both accused of sexual improprieties. Jan 11, 2018
ALIVE AT 55! By Ben Mattlin
For someone like me - born with a progressive neuromuscular condition called spinal muscular atrophy - that feels like a big milestone. Dec 5, 2017
Nurturing Spontaneity, or Why I Love “The Odd Couple” by Ben Mattlin
My current attendant recently asked if he could leave a couple hours early on Friday. No big deal, right? Oct 24, 2017
ROLLING ROLE MODELS ON TV – By Ben Mattlin
Recently, an important anniversary passed quietly. Important to me, anyway. It was 50 years since the TV show “Ironside” first aired. Sep 19, 2017
QUIET ACTIVISM by Ben Mattlin
Earlier this summer, social media (and a smattering of conventional media, too) were filled with images of disability-rights activists’ protests Aug 21, 2017
On the Guilty Pleasures of Computer Solitaire: A Defiant Act of Independence – By Ben Mattlin
These words you're reading now are a kind of small miracle. For you see, I can't actually write letters in the conventional sense. Jul 25, 2017
An Eye-Opening Wheelchair Malfunction – by Ben Mattlin
One summer some years ago, my motorized wheelchair abruptly stopped working. The joystick that controlled it simply would not engage. The chair was de Jun 28, 2017
Commentary: ‘Me Before You’ perpetuates idea that the disabled should consider suicide
"Some people with disabilities have already begun to protest the new movie, "Me Before You," which opens Friday in the U.S." Jun 2, 2016 |