» 2007 » December

Some of my sillies.

Some disabilities have obvious effects, some don’t. In either case, it can be hard to explain to someone else just how disabilities can make you feel.

Enter one of *the* best articles on the subject, The Spoon Theory. I’ve been using this ever since I discovered it as a handout to give to people that gives them a better idea of just how draining disability *can* be.

It’s great reading, and handy to use! The rest of the site there’s not too shabby either

Speaks for itself really

No, the title isn’t “disability discrimination”, but “disabled discrimination”.The BBC has a series of (badly written) message boards, one of which is frequented by people with disabilities. A recent thread was started there, entitled “Does disablism work both ways“.

The question was about this new pseudo-word, “disablism”, that has become common on those message boards, and asked if the word also applied to discrimination by people with disabilities towards people who have no disabilities.

As expected, the responses varied from the term being solely applicable to discrimination against people with disabilities, and the more-than-expected comments from one poster that implied discrimination against people without disabilities were “sauce for the gander”.

People “back home” are seriously fucked up when it comes to veterans.

Recently, a group of disabled veterans from the only real rehabilitation center in the UK were at a local public swimming pool. One lane was roped off for them to use.

A few of the locals objected to their presence. They were told they didn’t belong there, they were scaring the children. Some people went so far as to object to the veterans getting to “use” the pool “for free” whilst they (the objectors) had to pay a couple of pounds to use it.