Tell us about your favorite disability history story. It can be something you heard or learned about from someone, or it can be about how you are making disability history today. Stories should be about 200 words long.

Here’s a great example, submitted by Stacey Milbern,"My favorite disability history story was told to me by Leroy More, a black disabled activist who does a lot of media making around issues facing people of color with disabilities, when we were visiting the African American History Museum in Detroit together. He told me that Harriet Tubman had a traumatic head injury, and that it was acquired by violence from a plantation owner when she tried to protect an enslaved person. Her disability included narcolepsy and epilepsy, and she had many hallucinations. She used this to her advantage. Many community members were used to her “episodes” and wrote her off. This allowed her to move around without people becoming suspicious of her as a black woman. She found paths that became the Underground Railroad this way. I love this story because it speaks to how people with disabilities are so brilliant and use what we have."

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