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title: Voices From The Community | Spinal Cord Injury & Paralysis | Allen Rucker (5)
description: Allen Rucker was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and has an MA in Communication from Stanford University, an MA in American Culture from the University of Michigan, and a BA in English from Washington University, St. Louis. (5)
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[](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/were-not-there-yet)
Lifestyle
## [We’re Not There Yet](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/were-not-there-yet)
August 15, 2022
When CODA walked away with three Academy Awards earlier this year, probably a lot of people, disabled and non-disabled, thought that, finally, the 61... [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/were-not-there-yet)
[](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/before-the-ada)
Lifestyle
## [Before the ADA](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/before-the-ada)
August 2, 2022
I’m sure someone more knowledgeable about the law will soon expand on this matter, but I think it’s understood among disability-rights groups that... [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/before-the-ada)
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Lifestyle
## [Stay Home and Watch This](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/stay-home-and-watch-this)
July 20, 2022
If you are like me, you won’t be wandering too far off the farm this summer. I see all those people on TV jampacked into airports and ask, “What are... [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/stay-home-and-watch-this)
[](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/shifting-the-narrative)
Lifestyle
## [Shifting the Narrative](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/shifting-the-narrative)
July 14, 2022
According to a blistering op-ed piece in a recent New York Times, the time has passed for the Baby Boom generation and their elders to get off the... [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/shifting-the-narrative)
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Health
## [The Consequences of Not Dying](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/the-consequences-of-not-dying)
June 7, 2022
I’m getting up in years and from all that I read, from the weekly New York Times Science section to the ubiquitous come-ons to oldsters from top... [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/the-consequences-of-not-dying)
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Lifestyle
## [The Aftermath](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/the-aftermath)
May 31, 2022
A month and a few days ago – April 13 – I had a reverse shoulder replacement surgery. The surgeon removed the ball and socket in my left shoulder,... [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/blog/life-after-paralysis/the-aftermath)
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Lifestyle
## [Cultural Power Isn't Political Power](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/life-after-paralysis/cultural-power-isnt-political-power)
November 18, 2021
In an interview with “The New Yorker Radio Hour” the other day, John Stewart said something so succinctly and so spot-on, in my humble opinion, that... [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/life-after-paralysis/cultural-power-isnt-political-power)
[ National Paralysis Resource Center](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/life-after-paralysis/the-humble-sliding-board)
Lifestyle
## [The Humble Sliding Board](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/life-after-paralysis/the-humble-sliding-board)
August 30, 2021
When I became paralyzed many moons ago, I soon realized that appearances mattered. If I let people know how I was often feeling – weak, useless,... [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/life-after-paralysis/the-humble-sliding-board)
[ National Paralysis Resource Center](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/life-after-paralysis/hope-happens-here-allen-rucker)
Hope Happens Here
## [Hope Happens Here: Allen Rucker](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/life-after-paralysis/hope-happens-here-allen-rucker)
July 1, 2020
I became paralyzed from the neuroimmune disorder, transverse myelitis, about eighteen months after Christopher Reeve had his terrible accident. [Read More](https://blog.christopherreeve.org/en/life-after-paralysis/hope-happens-here-allen-rucker)
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The opinions expressed in these blogs are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
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