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This is an edited extract from Growing Up Disabled in Australia, edited by Carly Findlay and out now through Black Inc Books
‘As with humans, a horse’s value to society is inextricably, albeit unfortunately, linked to its abledness.’ Photograph: Welcomia/Getty Images/iStock
‘As with humans, a horse’s value to society is inextricably, albeit unfortunately, linked to its abledness.’ Photograph: Welcomia/Getty Images/iStock
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Mon 1 Feb 2021 11.30 EST
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Whenever I meet someone else who grew up disabled in Australia, there’s only one key thing I want to know about them. I go through the small-talk motions, I feign interest in how their day went, I wait a respectful amount of time before I derail the conversation with the question I’ve been dying to ask.