Thank you so much for all the lovely comments, I'm really delighted and overwhelmed with the response to this!

"Yes, and.." Glad she made the points she did, because it is beyond ticking the diversity boxes. We need to just get to the point of being "human" and adding our collective experiences together - because we all share this planet. We all live in it. And there's work to be done. Thank you for sharing your voice

“We are a beautiful diverse collection of differences” that phrase just got printed in my mind.

When people ask me why I’m not “normal” I ask them to define normal... also why be “normal” id much rather be loud, different and for want of a better word weird because that is what makes me well me! I agree wholeheartedly about Brexit and it’s threat to the NHS and it’s vulnerable people who don’t always have a voice who will suffer.

Wonderful combination of bravery, humour and revolution

I also live with EDS and found this inspiring as a fellow advocate, people with disabilities need a seat at the table.

I don't know how "the health care system" for the UK works? I just lost my lower right leg last year and am not even treated as human anymore by most people. I do know the UK has more technological advances when it comes to disability devices then we do. I have found more useful stuff from your country than in mine online. I am in the US and it sucks here. Actually had the idea to build an entire city just for disabled people. An entire new society just for the disabled where everything is accessible. Jobs, friends, family (if they wish to be their?) surrounded by people who actually care and just don't "pretend to care". I love your spirit and would love to meet you some day?

Thank you for sharing your story Hannah! In 2012 I was disabled by stroke. You've given me humor, hope, encouragement and inspiration. Once again thanks!

You are one of the most funny and jolly women I have ever met. Such a wonderful and wicked personality! This talk is incredible x

What a brilliant talk! Love this, will be sharing it around xxx

that last part really got to me, youre the best at getting your point across

Brilliant, Hannah. Thanks for speaking up for us x

A challenging talk. You put so much into it, I hope people are receptive to that.

This is absolutely everything I needed to hear today! Thank you so so much! ❤

I am happy to have found this video as a disability empowerment advocate. I have always believed that there are a lot more that persons with disabilities can do outside the box they are put in. This video is definitely a good start for me today and every other day as I champion this course.

Yesss!! I love the message behind this, you are so incredibly inspiring 🌼

Thank you for this, your words and attitude convey a sense of joy and hope

One of the most delightfully insightful Ted Talks ive ever listened too . Absolutely fantastic !

She has my sympathy

This is truly brilliant. I hope that you do many more Ted talks

Thank you for sharing your story.

She talks so much sense.

She should have said to that patient: "My legs don't really work, just like your sense of common decency doesn't really work."

You're doing a great job at repping the NHS and being an advocate. Keep on at it!

thank you so much for you and your mum, such an inspiration and gives me so much hope. God bless x

thank you for your incridible hard work wish you all the best

Our amazing Ambassador!! Keep up the great work Dr Pops! 🤩

Thank you very much for this video, has made me emotional, as somebody heavily involved in projects connected to DEI in the workplace (focused on disability, mental health and neurodiversity) and this video really helped me to understand better and gave me ideas and inspiration on how to contribute and improve the inclusion of people with disability.

Thank you for the wonderful TedTalk Dr. Barham-Brown, I look forward to sharing this with my students at Penn State University!

Oh Dr. Hannah Barham-Brown, I have lost so many jobs because of my epilepsy. I love working in the healthcare industry n this has given me courage to try once again. God bless you!

Beautiful! thank you for that wonderful speech.

Thank you for being such an inspiration.. I have a disability and I am about to start work in the NHS .. this video of yours has given me a different perspective and a + outlook .. thnx

Thank you for great talk! I just love it!

What a roll model! So impressive - awesome talk.

Great job, thank you

This is wonderful! Thank you.

Fantastic talk. Thank you for sharing.

I am disabled and this really spoke to me

Hannah, I enjoyed your talk and can totally relate to what you are saying. I am in a totally supportive family and work as an environmental engineer who also uses a wheelchair. My sister is living with me and she also uses a wheelchair and at one point there was also my Dad in a wheelchair. Talk about traffic jam in the house!! I try to live my life as best as I can and thank the higher powers for the life I have which is fulfilling. Everyone's life is different and we all face hardship in one way or the other. Smile everyone, it makes your life worthwhile.

Amazing inspirational life story! You rock!!

Ohh I love her whill powerchair it’s really cool because you can control it with it’s built in small lever or the app

🙏 amen🌺🍀 I really needed to hear this. Considering relocating from America to the UK for a better path of inclusion. Thank you so much for this. The world needs to hear this. 🌺🍀

😯🤗 my hero!!! Thank you for this!

Superb! The world needs diversity! Good talk and yes! more should be done to have more diversity. We are part of society! Any disability is not something to focus on and shouldn’t be the focus! It doesn’t define us. It’s just a small part of who we are 🙏 Bless you for sharing ❤️

Wise and beautiful!

Thank you for sharing your story. My oldest daughter and I both have hypermobility Ehlers Danilo's. We were diagnosed last year. I was just a few months away from 45 years old and she was 20 years old.. We felt the same way we ,thought we were really flexible but felt it was weird. And we felt weird until we were diagnosed.

I think , that if she wasn't disabled, she could have been an exceptional actress. There's something special about her way of communicating lively.

I was recently diagnosed with EDS and am still coming to terms with being disabled but this gave me some new hope and I really appreciate it

I love this!!

Wow, I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Hypermobility type and I turn 40 this month. I was diagnosed at 33 and was diagnosed with fibromyalgia at age 18. My body is literally falling apart. I don’t know how you manage. Well done, I know how amazing you are!! What you are doing is no small feat. I really hope you are able to bring about awareness for Connective Tissue Disorders, especially Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS). I wish you were my GP. 💜🦓

Love this talk! Especially the part where you talk about how disability changed you & the way you talk to other people but also the way people talk to you. It is so true! I was diagnosed with EDS about 5 years ago as an undergraduate. I’ve done so much to adapt and learn to advocate for myself, but ableism is so real and discouraging at times. I am curious how you managed this and the shame especially in such a high demand career? I ended up leaving school my senior year as an honor student when my school seemed to keep refusing to accommodate me (in blatant ways like not receiving handwriting services) as well as not considering how to work around and accommodate absences related to treatment and injury. It really hurt when a professor who I admired and who encouraged me to apply for medical school thought I would be unable to participate in a short study abroad trip despite doctors thinking it would be fine as long as I didn’t participate on the long hike (a ten mile one). This professor, the tour guide, and my peers (many of them young nursing professionals) walked ahead of me and another employee who relatively recently went into cancer remission after difficult rounds of chemotherapy most of the trip. This made it difficult for us to participate in the learning aspect of the trip as we could not hear the tour guide. I felt very dehumanized in academia and this has often been my experience in the exam room as well. How do we change this and show that even though we may have certain limitations that we also have certain strengths?

We could certainly use your strong voice here in Canada!

Wow... I have Vascular Ehlers Danlos.. I thought as she was describing her condition I had an idea but I did not expect to be right. What a great video

Brilliant

The words you are saying are amazing and all but ... that is also an excellent purple suit 👌💃

So glad to see your rainbow NHS pin! I love the campaign :)

100% right 👍✌

There is a job site called Mentra trying to change that. It will place you with a neuro inclusive employer and will match you with a job best suited to your needs.

YASSSS QUEEEEN!!

EDS is not as rare as people think, it's just heavily under diagnosed because it mainly affects female patients (not always, but mostly), and their pain is dismissed. I have EDS, and have met so many people by coincidence who also have it. If you were already dislocating joints and dealing with all the complications of EDS throughout your life, but didn't need a wheelchair, you can still identify as disabled, you just had different access needs. I appreciate people sharing their experience, I'm just commenting this as EDS awareness is severely lacking and there's a lot of misinformation and misconceptions that prevent people getting correct diagnoses and treatment. I don't know anyone with EDS who wasn't always disabled, but the majority of them were gaslit to believe that they just weren't working hard enough to be "normal" and that their pain and struggle was normal, but that their character was lacking and that's why they were complaining of pain and asking for help. If we had been believed and given proper treatment, most of us wouldn't be as ill as we are now. It is okay to be "broken" and that's a beautiful sentiment ❤ It's wonderful to see a wheelchair-using doctor! I would find that so much more reassuring, knowing that they would understand some of what I'm dealing with as a patient.

You are such a beautiful woman with a beautiful heart

Well in reality it hasn’t stopped me achieving what i want but it certainly has slowed me down ALOT Im not physically disabled but mental disabilities are equal Its unlikely ill get into any actual good work considering I can’t really even get the basic gcses but who knows i may not be academically gifted but there’s certainly something i can do I really believe I have some very useful skills I just haven’t unlocked yet

Many children have been displaced in Morocco because of the earthquake. Oh my God, it is very difficult for them. It is very cold for them. They only sleep in tents and pavements, and because they have no schools, no food, and no clothes.

I am conscious of not generalising and making assumptions about people based on their most obvious visual feature. While it’s likely that the feature has meant that they’ve been moulded by societal ‘norms’ to present in a stereotyped way, in my experience that persons ‘most obvious thing’ usually turns out to also be the least interesting thing about them and doesn’t give an indication of their deep selves. I’ve had amazing experiences with different abled people that wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t make the effort to embrace the uncomfortable truth that I saw myself as ‘better’. People should not be measured on a scale of bad to good, especially when the scale was designed by a manipulative minority who’s self interests are their only objective. People’s intelligence, interests. abilities and personalities are on a spectrum and everyone has worth. …and ‘boy can I talk!’ xo

There should be presentation in the UN to raise their voice

one of my best friends is in a wheelchair and he works just fine

She lives here in the uk like I do

Someone should design and make a folding desk/market stall which attaches to a mobility scooter or cargo bike so the disabled can drive to the local market and trade crafts without needing a helper

I also have EDS! I searched "how to work with a disability" because EDS caused stage 4 pelvic organ prolapse at 15. I go to the bathroom every 30 minutes to an hour with pretty bad pelvic pain. Recently went through reconstructive surgery and it kinda failed. I worry about working someplace and not being allowed to go to the bathroom because it's during "busy hours" or worry I am not going to measure up because of how many doctors and specialists I see and how much time off work that will cause. I was kicked out of high school because I was "too disabled" so I got my GED and want to progress with life. I am just unsure how to go about it.

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What a story

My knees would come out of joint with winter boots when i was a kid if the boots were too heavy, i also couldnt curl, or they would pop out of joint.

R.E.P.R.E.S.E.N.T.

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Is there any possibility of this being captioned or a transcript available?

I am there's to tell my story a about disability aswell

Was in the same class form.... Not sure if you remember me?

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I want to help you change that.

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I would love to talk to you.

when a normal person gets a job it is a job if a disabled person get a job its charity

thank you for your incridible hard work wish you all the best