History starts from where we are now - it is not just things that happened a long time ago. The global pandemic began in 2019. It has changed the lives of people with learning disabilities. We began our project during the first lockdown in April 2020. We came together to set up a website to collect stories and support and learn from each other about how to survive and keep strong. Storytelling is very important because it helps us understand what is going on. It is also a way to capture the history of people with learning disabilities at a very difficult time. We know that thousands of people with learning disabilities became ill and died in the flu epidemic of 1918. But nobody recorded their stories in their own words. We want to make sure this does not happen again, so we created an archive to help us remember.

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通过故事生存：2020-2021 年 covid19 大流行中学习障碍者的经历

历史从我们现在的位置开始——不仅仅是很久以前发生的事情。全球大流行始于 2019 年。它改变了有学习障碍的人的生活。我们在 2020 年 4 月的第一次封锁期间开始了我们的项目。我们一起建立了一个网站，以收集故事和支持，并相互学习如何生存和保持强大。讲故事非常重要，因为它可以帮助我们了解正在发生的事情。这也是一种在非常困难的时期捕捉学习障碍者历史的方式。我们知道，1918 年的流感大流行中，成千上万有学习障碍的人生病并死亡。但没有人用自己的话记录他们的故事。我们想确保这种情况不再发生，所以我们创建了一个档案来帮助我们记住。