[bksvol-discuss] Re: How I read

  • From: Elizabeth and Burton <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:06:24 -0500

Do not use "challenged" around me. disabled works just fine. Who is challenging me? The society who will not enforce laws so I can get a cab perhaps? What right does anyone have to challenge me. And not differently able either thogh brilliant and beautiful might be fine (grin). The reality is the way the society is set up a physicl disability is just that. People in wheelchairs are disabled from using stairs and there are not enough ramps and good access for the. People who are blind are disabled by not getting forms from their state and federal and local governments in formats they can fill out but rather in print. And on and on. We are definitely dis-abled but not just in ourselves but rather because the society is set up so unconsciously. Would you want to be called "age challenged"? Or just plain older or senior or something? (grin)


E.
At 07:27 PM 12/3/2006, you wrote:
Yes, it's a much better term. I'll try to remember it.
I knew there was something better but couldn't
remember what.

Cindy

--- barbarab65@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I prefer the word physically challenged than
> physically disabled. Anyway, I
> am also a Messianic-Jew so most people feel
> discriminated against in this
> category, anyway and it has helped me cope with the
> stuttering  discrimination.
>
> Barbara
>




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