Truth is language is foisted on us all whether we like it or not.
I did not chose to speak English it came by accident of birth in the UK
If I did not have language at all I would still be a person, and a person is
not something that comes in any order, first second or third
Larry
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> Thanks for Steve's comments here
>
> Here are some of my fave explanations / reviews of labels by
> people with the label of learning
> difficulties
>
> Dan Goodley
>
> ‘If you put ‘people with learning difficulties’ then they know
> that people want to learn and to be
> taught how to do things’ (quoted in Sutcliffe & Simons 1993, p23).
>
>
>
> The word ‘retarded’ [sic] is a word. What it does is put people
> in a class ... There’s always going
> to be people who are going to hold it to the ground. We’re on one
> side of the wall and the stone
> throwers are on the other side (Ed Murphy cited in Bogdan and
> Taylor 1982, p77).
>
> It means no one will hire me on a job unless they hear from a
> rehab counsellor or social worker.
> Get what I mean when I say it’s hard for handicapped people [sic]
> to find a job? (Larry on what
> learning difficulties means in Langness and Turner 1986, p71).
>
> People see our disability only, they don't see our ability. We
> may have a handicap but we’re not
> the handicap (Quoted in Yarmol 1987, p28, italics in original).
>
> If someone else whispers a lot during the play people might
> ignore it or get angry. If we whisper
> it is because we are retarded [sic]. It’s like we have to be more
> normal than normal people
> (Martin Levine, self-advocate, in Freidman-Lambert 1987, p15).
>
>
>
>
> Date sent: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:06:00 +0000
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