Suicidal Ideation: a struggle with “disability” and identity

Ira David Socol
8 min readAug 20, 2019

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A little more than 10 years ago, for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009, I wrote a piece about my battle with societal disinterest in the facts of disability. Blogging Against Disablism Day is an important event on MayDay that gives voice to the widest possible range of disability stories.(though it could not be organized in 2018–2019 we

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Ira David Socol

Author, Dreamer, Educator: A life in service - NYPD, EMS, disabilities/UDL specialist, tech and innovation leader for education. Co-author of Timeless Learning