Sam Connor’s disability didn’t hold her back but encouraged them to be advocates for people like herself. She has taken up roles as a newspaper editor, scout leader, and artist.
Sam actively speaks on behalf of people with disabilities and tells her own story regarding her experience. She has been nominated as West Australian of the Year.
Sam Connor Disability
Sam Connor’s disability has to do with a rare limb disease category identified when she was in her twenties.
The doctors diagnosed that she had limb-girdle muscular dystrophy when she was just 23 years old. The disease made her limbs weak, but she only used the wheelchair 20 years after being diagnosed with the disease.
Connor was not much affected by the disease until people started to treat her differently after she could not walk by herself. She learned that people had misconceptions about people who are differently-abled and want to change how they perceive them.
Sam Connor Wikipedia
Sam has been mentioned on the Wikipedia page of People with Disability Australia.
Samantha was born in Australia and studied there until she was sent off to Zimbabwe by her parents. She went to a boarding school in Africa and lived with a godmother who was a strict Christian woman who owned a farm.
Connor learned a great deal about the country until she returned to her home after her father’s death.
Connor didn’t become a speaker for disabilities until two of her children were born with autism, and she found out that nobody in her community was aware of that.
She further became encouraged to be involved with her children and became a disability advocate working with schools in the area to educate the staff about autism.
The advocate previously worked as a project management officer for People with disabilities WA from 2014-2017 and then became a DIRG member for National Disability Insurance Agency.
Sam was recently appointed as president for People With Disability Australia in Sydney, New South Wales.
Sam Connor Age
Sam Conner has not disclosed her exact age.
Even if she was not born with her limb disorder, she has been diagnosed with the disease for almost 2 decades. Despite that, she has been working tirelessly for better deals for people with disabilities and their families.
Sam Connor Partner
Sam got married to her partner Peter and had her first child when she was 19 years old.
She currently lives with her husband and six kids in Toodyaay, Western Australia.
Connors’s parents are originally from England and came to Australia in 1962. She and her brother were born and raised in Australia in a strict household. She mentioned that she would often run away due to the abuse she used to get from her father while growing up.
Find Sam On Facebook
Samantha has her own Facebook account that she uses to share about disability advocacy. Her bio describes her as “disability rights activist | bolshy diva | social media assassin.”
Most of Samantha’s posts have been made to clarify her advocacy regarding disability so that others would not misunderstand her mission.
