What is independent living?
What is independent living? Essentially, it is living just like everyone else — having opportunities to make decisions that affect one’s life, able to pursue activities of one’s own choosing — limited only in the same ways that one’s nondisabled neighbors are limited.
Independent living should not be defined in terms of living on one’s own, being employed in a job fitting one’s capabilities and interests, or having an active social life. These are aspects of living independently. Independent living has to do with self-determination. It is having the right and the opportunity to pursue a course of action. And, it is having the freedom to fail — and to learn from one’s failures, just as nondisabled people do. – Text referenced from here.
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