5 things to avoid when you meet a disabled person @WellcomeCollection
5 things to avoid when you meet a disabled person  @WellcomeCollection
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Doctor, disability activist, and author Grace Spence Green (@gracesg) on some of her do's and don'ts when you meet a disabled person.

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Grace Spence Green's book 'To Exist as I Am: A Doctor's Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance' is available to buy at Wellcome Collection's bookshop, online, and wherever else you get your books 📚

[Alt text: We're watching a video of Grace speaking directly to the camera in our Reading Room – a nice, cosy, space with books, lounge chairs and bean bags. She has long brown hair and wears red lipstick, round yellow glasses, and a sweater-vest-shirt combo. She is sitting in her wheelchair with one leg crossed over the opposite knee.]

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5 things to avoid when you meet a disabled person

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