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Hello lovebirds, and welcome to LOVE AND OTHER DISABILITIES; the podcast for disabled folks and their loved ones.

I am your host, Claudia Forsberg. Ballarat based journalist and hopeless romantic.

To recap, the first two episodes so far, have been dedicated to two types of heartbreak - friendship and romantic. In hindsight, this may seem unintentionally pessimistic of me, but I promise you there are some positive messages hidden in there. So before you continue, if you haven't already, go back and listen to those.

This week I'm going to be switching gears a little bit. The topic I wanted to discuss this week is perhaps a concept that not many of you will be familiar with yet, at least not those of our loved ones without a disability. I'm talking of course about the social model of disability.

Now, the reason I think this is important and relevant in the context of love and relationships, is this will serve as a useful frame of reference for disability and the definitions of disability we understand today.

And by understanding these definitions, we can better support and love our loved ones, with disability… (click here to view full transcript)

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