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The Glass Ceiling of Thalidomide

The Glass Ceiling of Thalidomide

by C. Jean Grover | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, Disability Rights, US Thalidomide Story

Thalidomide survivors can only go so far. I am sitting right now, looking upward at a glass ceiling right above my head, so close that it concerns me. I can see where I want to go, but I just can’t get there, due to a barrier. It was placed between my goals and me, 58...
Normalizing “different”

Normalizing “different”

by Carolyn Farmer Sampson | Jul 16, 2017 | Blog, Disability Rights, US Thalidomide Story

For more than 45 years I worked hard to hide my physical differences and associated struggles, first by instinct and later as a defense against unwanted attention. Each decade became more difficult until I could no longer hide my escalating physical challenges. It...

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