she found out what she was capable of — tiffany yu

at nine, a car accident took her father and left one of her arms permanently paralyzed. every time since, when someone decided what she couldn't do, she went and found out for herself. tiffany yu relearned how to write. got herself to the bathroom alone in a wheelchair. stood at the bottom of a climbing wall telling herself she couldn't, and climbed it anyway. somewhere in there, she stopped letting other people set the limit. she built diversability, a community where disabled people find pride and power together. she started speaking on stages when speaking terrified her. she wrote the anti-ableist manifesto, now reaching the people who needed exactly what she went through. she's a forbes accessibility 100 honoree and a tedx speaker whose talk has crossed a million views, and her book is an amazon editors' pick now in its fourth printing. underneath all of it is someone who stopped asking permission to take up space, and can say it plainly: "i love who i'm becoming." "just watch me." if you liked this, listen to eva noblezada next. https://open.spotify.com/episode/04IsNCUXJexaglKUAVikvR tiffany's website: https://www.tiffanyyu.com tiffany's book, the anti-ableist manifesto: https://www.tiffanyyu.com/book diversability: https://mydiversability.com reppin: https://reppin.tv reppin's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reppin_podcast/?hl=en here, we're human first. music: dj ace the cut lieutenant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices