Laura Mauldin
speaker
155 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Feb
Laura Mauldin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And so she tried to scoot over and transfer herself into the wheelchair and something got caught.
And so she missed and ended up face down on the floor, sort of pitched forward and stuck.
And it was around lunchtime.
And at this time, she was hungry and she had to go to the bathroom.
And so she ended up urinating on herself while totally stuck in this position and unable to move.
And she kept trying and trying, but because of the MS, she was unable to get herself up.
And she's also, again, blind.
And all she's really aware of is the carpet and that hours go by because it begins to get dark.
And her cats began to eat her lunch, which was a tuna fish sandwich.
This was a moment in the book where I was extremely struck by the way that she understood that scene.
was not, why have I been abandoned?
And I'm not saying abandoned by Ben.
I mean by a system that has refused to provide care so that this human being can live a dignified life.
Her thoughts did not go there.
She wasn't angry.
She wasn't cursing the situation.
Instead, she blamed herself for being disabled and decided that she was ruining Ben's life.
Look at what I'm doing to him.
And that really drove home for me how powerful and pervasive that was.
ableism that she had internalized had not let her be angry or demand more or understand her experience as a political experience instead she only saw it as her own failing and felt shame around it you know
Showing 61–80 of 155 · page 4 of 8
← Previous
Next →