Heather highlighted two ways of thinking about disability: the social model and the medical model. The medical model views people with disabilities as needing to be fixed by the medical system. In this case, disability is the problem. But the social model views harmful perspectives on disability, or ableism, as the problem. Ableism creates an inaccessible world, and we all have a role in either creating it or dismantling it. The social model shifts the problem from the person and bodies to systems and ways of thinking about people and bodies.
