Mind Matters with Dr Sian

Samantha Renke: The highs and lows of living with a disability

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Writer and disability rights campaigner Samantha Renke is a wheelchair user living with brittle bone disease.

Here, she opens up with Dr Sian Williams about the highs and lows of living with a disability, how constantly being subjected to microaggressions can feel like death by a thousand paper cuts, and how she's finally learnt to embrace her uniqueness.

Mind Matters with Dr Sian is a podcast from 5 News, hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Producer: Katie Goodman; Executive producer: Silvia Maresca; Guest producer: Jacqui Fuller.