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Nearly 300 readers shared their disability stories with NPR. This is what they want you to know about living with a disability.

What NPR readers want you to know about living with a disability

To celebrate Disability Pride Month, NPR readers tell their disability stories and share what they wish other people knew about living with a disability.

Taylor Fritz of the U.S reacts after defeating Frances Tiafoe during the men's singles semifinals of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Friday in New York.

Taylor Fritz wins match to become first American man in a U.S. Open final since 2006

Taylor Fritz surged with a six-game run against a fading Frances Tiafoe, also of the U.S., to come out on top 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 and reach his first Grand Slam final.

Shaboozey, seen here at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York, has spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the pop chart with his first hit, the smash "A Bar Song (Tipsy)."

Shaboozey's hit 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' is No. 1 again, and joins an elite club

A 10th week at the top of the Billboard pop chart is quite an accomplishment. Before the 2000s, that was the rarest of feats. In the days of streaming though, it's become more common.

A man places flowers in front of headstones in Section 60, which mark the final resting place of service men and women at Arlington National Cemetery on May 27 in Arlington, Va.

Arlington National Cemetery's Section 60 is a focus of controversy. What is the area?

Many U.S. servicemembers from Afghanistan and Iraq wars are interred in this solemn place. It made news after a cemetery official tried to prevent former President Trump's campaign from taking photos.

"Scripps Mercy Hospital" sign outside the Scripps Health hospital in Chula Vista, May 10, 2021.

Huge increase in homeless hospital admissions raises recuperative care shortage concerns

The number of homeless patients treated at Scripps Health's San Diego County hospitals is on track to double numbers from 2023.

In the popular reality TV show Love is Blind, contestants date each other while in "pods" where they cannot see each other.

'Love is Blind' says it's an experiment. Scientists say attraction is more arbitrary

Hit reality TV show Love is Blind brands itself as a social experiment in our image-obsessed world — but psychologists say that love can be influenced by many different things.

Critics have said the promotional materials for the film It Ends With Us glamorize domestic violence.

The movie 'It Ends With Us' faces criticism for glamorizing domestic abuse

Critics say the film, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel of the same title, paints a love story — not a picture of domestic abuse as portrayed in the original work.

A twisting scar left behind after a bullet entered Aaron Hunter's brain on June 22, 2023. After emergency surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, the surgeon warned that the 13-year-old's ability to walk, see and speak could be affected. He spent weeks in the hospital followed by eight months of physical and occupational therapy.

Guns are killing more U.S. children. Shooting survivors can face lifelong challenges

Guns are now the leading cause of death among American children. And many more children are injured in shootings, putting them at risk for life-altering disability, pain, and mental trauma.

Kayode and Christiana Alabi both competed in table tennis at the Paris Paralympics. They each had polio in their childhood, growing up in Nigeria.

Sports brought hope — and love — to these Paralympians who had childhood polio

Athletes who contracted childhood polio share their stories of how they overcame the consequences of the disease — and what sports means to them.

Should your car warn you that you're speeding? California lawmakers vote yes

California could become the first state to require technology in cars that warns drivers when they're going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. But critics say lawmakers are moving too fast.

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