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Your responses are in! During the 12 days of the Minnesota State Fair, more than 350 people answered our booth question: “What does Disability Pride mean to you?” We were impressed by the number of responses. We sincerely appreciate the openness and honesty of your answers.
We created a word cloud to represent the responses. The larger a word appears in the cloud, the more often people included it in their answers. From the 350 responses, we list 136 keywords that give insight into what Disability Pride means to you.
Most Common Responses
The 10 most common words found in the responses were:
- Self-Pride
- Love
- Equality
- Access
- Respect
- Kindness
- Acceptance
- Feeling Supported
- Self-Love
- Inclusion
Language helps shape our world, and the responses we collected tell us one thing for certain: Disability Pride is complex. As we continue to explore topics like this, we encourage others to do the same.
To give you a fuller idea of what Disability Pride means, we list the remaining keywords in alphabetical order.
Remaining Keywords in Alphabetical Order
- ability
- accessibility
- accessible
- allyship
- be-somebody
- beauty
- being-accepted
- being-believed
- being-capable
- being-different
- being-employed
- being-helpful
- being-me
- being-open
- being-seen
- being-unapologetic
- being-yourself
- belonging
- bravery
- care
- celebrating
- community
- determination
- different-perspective
- differently-abled
- dignity
- embrace-yourself
- empathy
- equal-access
- equal-opportunity
- equal-representation
- equal-rights
- equal-treatment
- equity
- fair-treatment
- family
- fearless
- feeling
- feeling-accepted
- feeling-loved
- feeling-represented
- feeling-safe
- freedom
- friendship
- full-inclusion
- gratefulness
- happiness
- happy-life
- having-belonging
- having-dignity
- having-health
- having-resources
- having-support
- health-equity
- helping-others
- honesty
- human
- humility
- inclusive-education
- independence
- interdependence
- intersectionality
- language-access
- life-experience
- living
- living-free
- meaningful-lives
- my-child
- my-students
- my-voice
- no-barriers
- no-fear
- no-hiding
- no-judgement
- no-judgment
- no-pity
- no-shame
- no-stigma
- not-conforming
- not-easy
- not-hiding
- openness
- opportunity
- others
- peace
- people-first
- person-first
- power
- pride
- pride-in
- receiving-help
- recognition
- royalty
- safe
- safe-travel
- school-inclusion
- self-acceptance
- self-determination
- self-direction
- self-respect
- signing-freely
- strength
- success
- support
- supported
- survival
- taking-care
- teaching-others
- tenacity
- to-be
- togetherness
- treated-equally
- treated-kindly
- undeniable-access
- understanding
- understood
- uniqueness
- universal-design
- valid
- value
- visibility
- vulnerability
- whole
- wholeness
- working-hard
- worthy