Not at all, for two reasons:
Firstly, disabled people do not become career high achievers at the same
rate as the non-disabled (that is a not entirely academically based
observation based on my personal and professional experience (someone out
there will have the stats)) which could indicate that the social model is
not providing a balancing effect in the area of employment.....yet.
Secondly, people are employed to do a set of tasks called a job and if there
are things that limit their ability to do the job they find ways around it,
to fix the problem with interventions (equipment or facilitators etc.) and
that is a medical model starting point although maybe only in it's purest
sense.
Paul
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> From: sonali shah[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: sonali shah
> Sent: 26 July 2001 12:47
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: an opinion
>
> Opinions:
>
> How Does the social model of disability influence disabled people's career
> development and help them become high achievers?
>
> s
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurence Bathurst <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 26 July 2001 02:53
> Subject: Re: a transhumanist definistion of disability studies
>
>
> >Hello quiet achievers
> >
> >There's so much that could be discussed on the topic of valuing
> difference
> >and its transformation and communication by youth culture into "fashion"
> >via popular cultural (cult) media. It could be cool to be able to
> identify
> >as some Manga comic superhero if your social identity relies on the
> >perception of the people who follow these fashions. I suspect however
> that
> >discrimination between the authentic and the staged will occur eg.
> >
> >Scarification - Kewl
> >Scarred by accident - Errrrrk
> >
> >Branding - Kewl
> >Burned by accident - Errrrk
> >
> >I am soon to have a basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer) excised from my
> >forehead. Instead of having stitches I might ask for several gold studs
> or
> >would silver look better?
> >
> >
> >
> >At 11:11 AM 26/07/2001 +1000, you wrote:
> >>yay larry. gregor you do find the funnies, were they having a joke!!
> >>
> >>I certainly can't identify with this renaming of our movement - as ever
> >>everyone wants to lay a
> >>claim on us to help reach their goal - with disabled peple there to
> >>provide the dramatic catalyst -
> >>so this year its the pro lifers and now the transhumans.. always someone
> >>ready to describe us and
> >>lay down the limits - and use our progress to underline their "other"
> >>point. aanyone got any idea
> >>if many disabled people are actually a knowing part of the "transhuman"
> >>community or if they wrote
> >>this new definition!?
> >>
> >>isn't most of their point about "improving and enhancing" humanity - the
> >>opposite of what disabled
> >>people are asking for - equality how/whoever we are or however we get by
> -
> >>the tools we use are to
> >>gain our equal status not become extra-human or special.
> >>
> >>hate to be so disregarding of anothers beliefs but arent transhumans
> peole
> >>who are just really
> >>insecure about their bodies so they want robotic parts, or want to be
> >>controlling and superior -
> >>unlike many of us disabled people - maybe they would just like to think
> we
> >>feel that way? cant see
> >>what we've got in common!
> >>
> >>clair 100% human Disabled activist.
> >>
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