I wonder whether the following paragraph has any basis in reality.
"Tanni said that she was very happy to have won two awards at the event and did not want this unfortunate error being exploited, undoing much of the good work that has been achieved for disabled athletics."
If so, she reminds me of myself until about five years ago when I broke down (couldn't sleep, couldn't laugh or cry for four and a half months!!) partly because I felt (rather than realized) what people's attitudes and economic rationalism was doing/going to do to us (our political environment is always about 10 years behind the UK and USA). Since I "came out the other side - and I'm not completely 'there' even now - with the help of my husband (who 'hung in there' with hardly any help from others); my Transcendental Meditation; and a doctor who is a T.M teacher/counsellor who is versed in stress and trauma I find myself far more able and willing to speak up for one of my communities - the disabled community. I now find the lack of understanding and
care of our issues - even in my own family! - quite appalling.
This is not people's (both disabled and non-disabled) fault - most of us are unaware that individual issues are SYSTEMIC issues. The course in Community Development I am doing now is really bringing this home to me in a way that my B.A. did not - could not possibly.
Jai Guru Dev,
"Sundari" (Ingrid).
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