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"I'M Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much.", Yoseph Mamo, Justin A. Haegele
"I'M Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much.", Yoseph Mamo, Justin A. Haegele
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The development of interactive social media platforms has expanded how disability is communicated or shared with the public. Despite the potential of social media to challenge and educate nondisabled people's understanding of disability, little empirical research has been conducted in this area. In this study, we analyzed comments from a YouTube video from a seminal TED Talk by the late Australian disability rights activist, educator, and comedian Stella Young. The video titled "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young" had accumulated 1,374,878 views, 22,000 likes, and 975 interactions (comments and responses) at the time of the …