Paralympic Champion Tatyana McFadden Is Smashing Stereotypes About Athletes With Disabilities

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adding to make the sport better. To make the community better. ’” So she sued for the right for people with disabilities to equally participate in high school sports. “I wanted to do this under the radar, you have no idea,” she says. “It was the toughest time for me in high school to try to be a lawmaker at the age of 15.” But the case caught national media attention—and in 2013, . “People were telling me to change my dream,” McFadden says, “but in reality, we needed to change people's perceptions—not my dream.”McFadden has always worked to change the perception of people with disabilities.

Born with spina bifida, a birth defect of the spinal cord, she spent the first six years of her life in Orphanage Number 13 in St.