A disabled artist’s journey from ‘Oh, sorry’ to social justice activism
"Cerebral palsy can look a thousand different ways. I didn't meet someone who actually looked like me or moved like me until I was 20 years old."
Sonya Rio-Glick was born three months and six days premature, alongside her twin, in the summer of 1997. Both had health complications. Sonya had cerebral palsy but wasn’t formally diagnosed until she was 2, after a physical therapist approached her parents at a party. That’s when her family learned what had made Rio-Glick move differently since infancy.
Cerebral palsy, which also affects posture, is the most prevalent motor disability in kids. But don’t call it a disease, says Rio-Glick, 26. “To say my body is diseased is an imposition.”
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