[bksvol-discuss] Re: How I read
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 21:09:12 -0800 (PST)
Good point. How would physically impaired be?
Cindy
--- Elizabeth and Burton <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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