WHAT IS
DNA SWO?
The Disability and Neurodiversity Alliance (DNA) of Southwestern Ontario (SWO) was created to build a community of individuals who identify as autistic, d/Deaf, disabled, mad, neurodivergent, and/or as having a chronic illness, disability, long-term condition, or mental illness. Simply put, we welcome anyone who does not identify as non disabled. Non-disabled allies are welcome to join us as well.
OUR GOALS
CELEBRATION
& ADVOCACY
As individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity we navigate the world in our own unique ways. You may even say we originated the term “Life Hack” as things are so often designed without us in mind. So many things in our lives are customized and personalized to our needs and aesthetic tastes. We modify things from our clothes to our assistive devices to fit our lives. Even the ways in which we communicated with each other act as shorthand in our communities. It is this culture we want to celebrate together collectively as DNA.
With the things that deserve celebration there remains countless issues that still need to change within our society. We can all agree there are tremendous flaws in our social and health care systems that effect all of us. The best way to start making the necessary changes is to raise our voices as a collective. After all there this strength in numbers, and recent statistics say we make up close to 25% of Canada’s population. Which is Canada’s largest minority population.
