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Love the Phrasing "…able-bodied and disabled"
This morning in our local paper, the Press Democrat, a columnist said, talking about the invitees for an upcoming community supper, “The idea is that folks wealthy and poor, native-born and immigrant, able-bodied and disabled…will sit and visit… .”
I wrote to thank the columnist, Chris Coursey. When I read the column I was struck and [...]
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Change in the Zeitgeist
For the second time this week I’ve seen reference to how someone’s disability helped to make a new product or song.
This is the exact opposite of the super crip or the overcomer. It shows a reality that I know. When you’ve got a disability you have to be inventive.
The first is Doc Pomus, a wheelchair [...]
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Old Attitudes
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Old Attitudes
The word amputees and surfing in an LA Times headline on my newsreader caught my eye this morning. It was a nice, little feel-good piece on veterans with recent amputations going surfing. A swimsuit manufacturer sponsored a weekend to teach them how to surf.
Just as I was about [...]
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