Why disabled people demanded voice in decisions made about them.
No one should be designed around without being heard.
Disability rights movements insisted that disabled people must speak for themselves and be involved in policy, services and support.
This challenged professional and charitable models where others spoke over disabled people.
Awareverse keeps lived experience central.
When looking at nothing about us without us, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?