Stop with the labels … because we are not jam jars; we are extraordinary, different, wonderful people.

Caroline Casey’s remark pushes back against the habit of reducing people to categories—especially labels tied to disability, diagnosis, job title, or other shorthand identities. The “jam jars” image suggests that labels belong on containers of standardized goods, not on human beings whose lives and capacities are complex and changing. The quote argues for seeing individuals as singular and multifaceted rather than as representatives of a type. In Casey’s broader advocacy work around disability and inclusion, the line functions as a call to replace limiting descriptors with curiosity, respect, and attention to lived experience—recognizing difference as a source of value rather than a deficit.