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Navigating Disability
Welcome to the Navigating Disability Podcast Show!! Your hosts, Kate Read and Jenn Abbott are committed to changing the narrative around 'normal' and 'ability' and look so forward to sharing our weekly guests with you! Get ready to be inspired, empowered and enlivened as we dive into education, lived experiences, expert advice, behind the scenes on political movements and how YOU, our listeners can THRIVE within your community!
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Navigating Disability
Beyond Survival: A Life Reclaimed After Rare Diagnosis
What does it mean to build a life of purpose when your body has been fighting you since childhood?
Today, Navigating Disability sit with Eliot Carroll. Before his tenth birthday, Eliot was diagnosed with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH). His childhood wasn't defined by playgrounds and playdates, but by two life-altering brain surgeries, a complex dependence on medication, and the profound limitations of a body that couldn't keep up.
He learned to navigate the world from hospital rooms and the sidelines, a witness to a "normal" life that always seemed just out of reach.
But this isn't a story of sickness. It's a story of strength.
Eliot has decoded a powerful truth: a life limited in activity is not a life limited in impact.
Now, he uses his voice as a microphone for the marginalised. As a passionate disability rights advocate, he breaks down barriers, challenges stereotypes, and fights for a world where access and understanding are not privileges, but fundamental rights.