We know from our experience that patients are not sick for just a week. They learn that they have cancer for months or years. People with disabilities have told me that they are often insulted by the thought that they have made sudden and urgent decisions after having lived brave and courageous lives dealing with those disabilities. In most cases, they are very well aware of their own vulnerability and they do not take it lightly that other people speak for them. They have told me, “Tell them that I am the real disabled, but I am being trampled on by this pretend concern for my own ability to be autonomous.”
On November 3rd, 2020. See this statement in context.