on 6/2/01 10:31 AM, Larry Arnold at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> To me nobody an no body is impaired, impairment is a measurement of
> relativity, by which one requires a standard or datum to measure impairment
> against, once one establishes such a paradigm of perfection, completeness or
> wholeness, one has already started on the road to discrimination.
>
> Difference is all that I recognise.
>
> If you recall my parable about the forest and trees which I posted a while
> ago you might see what I getting at.
>
>
> Larry
>
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>> On Wednesday 30th May Anita wrote:
>>
>> Just in case my query was not clear enough, let me repeat it again.
>> What I wish to understand the position of social model on the
>> impaired body.
>> Is / Should the material body be important to the disability theory?
>> Thanks
>> Anita
>>
>> I'm also interested in reponses to this question
>>
>> Cheers carol
>>
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This is tripe. Impairment is negative not difference, and it insults
disabled people everywhere to suggest it is. Failure to deal with Impairment
exposes weakness of the Social Model of Disability. Its chief fault is that
it denies any medical side to disability whatsoever and substitutes an
opposite definition in which everything is social. This leads inescapably to
a denial of impairment. Denial of impairment is denial of reality. No
disabled person can afford not to be a realist. Yes, we can argue that the
end stage disabled person is a complex combination of causes, and some of
these will be undoubtedly social. But, at the original level, impairment
remains the primary cause of disability. When was the last time you saw a
non-impaired disabled person?
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