Oct 27, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
What if the accommodation request on your desk is one of the best performance tools you have? Too many organizations still treat disability accommodations as a compliance task: a box to check, a cost…
And for me, I grew up actually in a really interesting environment that I thought was normal at the time.
My family has a dominant gene, causing us to progressively lose our peripheral vision over time.
And because it's a dominant gene, that means there's a 50-50 shot that someone will get it in the family.
And truly, about 50% of my family actually has the same disability that I do.
So I grew up around people living with this disability in a multitude of different ways.
And in many ways, it taught me both what to do and what not to do when living with a disability.
And I had to learn how to show up and live life with my disability in a way that really felt authentic to me and worked for the current world that we live in.
Within that, I recognized that a lot of people think of disability as an automatic negative thing.
And I got really curious about that process and how to not only accept your disability and live with it as something that brings pride, but to use it as a real asset And not just in your career with accommodations that we're going to talk about today, but also within your relationships and who you are in your every single day life.
For me, I'm at a point now where if somebody handed me a magic pill and said, would you like to cure your blindness? I would say yes.
And the work that we do at Disability Reimagined doesn't necessarily help people to fall in love with their disability, but it does help them to fall in love with their life with their disability and learn how to leverage that in a way to create success and impact.
And so many people think accommodations are a handout or some sort of necessity or last resort.
but they're really an advantage that can help people to do their best and most impactful work.
Well, and I think following up on that, an accommodation for one person really helps everybody in the workforce, right? So, so powerful.
The truth is that we all have accommodations, but when the fact of disability comes into the equation, the negative connotations of disability come into play and make people believe that their accommodations make them less than, less capable, less valuable, less worthy, right? But the truth is, even something as simple as delegation is an accommodation saying, I can't do this on my own.
And for me, I grew up actually in a really interesting environment that I thought was normal at the time.
My family has a dominant gene, causing us to progressively lose our peripheral vision over time.
And because it's a dominant gene, that means there's a 50-50 shot that someone will get it in the family.
And truly, about 50% of my family actually has the same disability that I do.
So I grew up around people living with this disability in a multitude of different ways.
And in many ways, it taught me both what to do and what not to do when living with a disability.
And I had to learn how to show up and live life with my disability in a way that really felt authentic to me and worked for the current world that we live in.
Within that, I recognized that a lot of people think of disability as an automatic negative thing.
And I got really curious about that process and how to not only accept your disability and live with it as something that brings pride, but to use it as a real asset And not just in your career with accommodations that we're going to talk about today, but also within your relationships and who you are in your every single day life.
For me, I'm at a point now where if somebody handed me a magic pill and said, would you like to cure your blindness? I would say yes.
And the work that we do at Disability Reimagined doesn't necessarily help people to fall in love with their disability, but it does help them to fall in love with their life with their disability and learn how to leverage that in a way to create success and impact.
And so many people think accommodations are a handout or some sort of necessity or last resort.
but they're really an advantage that can help people to do their best and most impactful work.
Well, and I think following up on that, an accommodation for one person really helps everybody in the workforce, right? So, so powerful.
The truth is that we all have accommodations, but when the fact of disability comes into the equation, the negative connotations of disability come into play and make people believe that their accommodations make them less than, less capable, less valuable, less worthy, right? But the truth is, even something as simple as delegation is an accommodation saying, I can't do this on my own.
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