Let us face it, disability as a lable or identifier is only useful so long
as inequality persists.
If the inequality is universally vanquished then what do we become other
than the seperate and divers individual personalities we have been all
along?
It seems we often have little in common beyond the fact that we have been
labled, usaually by a Dr or consultant at some stage in our lives with a
condition that has ben internationally defined by a committee of health
professionals in an entirely medical context. This essential is what makes
us different from those who do not have that experience.
This has often led to our needs and aspirations either not being recognised
or met and various forms of prijudice setting up a multitude of barriers,
each barrier as different from the next as the circumstance is different.
What is the same is that these barriers are what other people have either
created or refused to take down.
Larry
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