Could I really stand up and publicly demand the right to do something I’d never done before? Did I have the right? So many people would be watching me, wondering—could a woman in a wheelchair teach? What if I won this fight and then turned out to be a lousy teacher? I’d fail in front of everyone. If I wasn’t successful at teaching, would people think that no one with a disability could teach? Would that ruin it for everyone? If there were thousands of us teaching, no one would notice one bad teacher, but if I was the only one and if I failed—what would that do to people’s perception of
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