Indeed - leaders are for sheep and I am a wolf.
I am I, anarchist, myself alone, individual, autistisimus, self incarnate
There is no world, no society, only I, who am connected to a sea of
incomprehensibility.
If unity were strengh who would unite with me? how could that make me free?
And if the cognate cosmos, conspires on me, do they not tear the world apart
to trample on me alone?
Scattering casualties as they go. colateral damage on the highway to my
destruction.
I doubt if any one has an inkling of what that is all about, who knows what
lies in anothers mind, or if any human experience were comparable one with
another.
Read Thomas Hobbes, and may there be much joy to you in it. (ironic
statement)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Curry, Paul
> Sent: 03 May 2001 15:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Request of information on interaction among physically
> disabl ed
>
>
> Marlene,
>
> Thanks. I am pleased that I got at least one response before I went away
> (any more than a week off and I'd miss the Mailbase too much).
> Would I have
> been better received if I'd said that it was my experience that
> this was the
> case? I have worked with, as customers and colleagues, and have
> friends who
> are acquired spinal chord injured people, they do not reflect the whole of
> the group, of course, but neither would Masakuni's experiences.
> However this
> is the experience some born disabled people have of some acquired disabled
> people (I've often been told that I don't understand disability because I
> use crutches rather than a wheelchair and have not lost the
> ability to walk
> as I never had it in the first place) and it is important to
> recognise that
> this type of view exists and that it is discussed (as Masakuni points out
> about Deaf people and they way some view their issues as about culture and
> language more than about disability) .
>
> When I got in today there was also the posting asking about
> identifying the
> leaders of the disability movement and there is a possible
> contradiction if
> we say that there are leaders but there are also divisions in the
> disability
> movement. Are there separate leaders, or perhaps prominent thinkers, from
> the acquired spinal injury group, the congenital spinal
> malformation group,
> the visually impaired group, the learning disability group, etc.. There
> probably is but this was not what was asked for.
>
> I've also stated on this Mailbase before that I think that the idea of a
> disability movement is flawed (and it is only my opinion so as valuable or
> as valueless as that makes it) and that what there is in reality
> is a loose
> coalition of like minded but very different sets of groups and individuals
> with very different sets of views and priorities (so different in
> fact that
> if Society hadn't given us all the label of being disabled we may
> never have
> felt that we belonged together) discussing and arguing over the issues so
> that some sort of compromise can be reached, because, as you quite rightly
> point out, it is wrong to assume and generalise.
>
> In between my course writing I am more than happy to continue this
> discussion via e mail rather than the Mailbase (as I don't have access at
> home although feel free to copy me in to anything posted to the Mailbase)
> and my home e mail is [log in to unmask]
>
>
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