To all
I have cerebral palsy affecting my left side. I do not find the term
impairmenty offensive in anyway, quite the reverese I find it necessary in
order to articulate my social position. The part that I need it to
articulate is not my economic condition or environment, it explains why I
limp. I do not limp because money was witheld and if people built better
floors my left side would still limp, my back would still hurt, 'disability'
as a concept does not necesssary help me here.
However, I am not wanting the social model as it stands to 'cure' my
impairment nor am I endorsing a medical model. I am wanting to articulate a
story about my experience of impairment, of pain an joy and for that I need
some term to refer to the physical body that I am, and for that I need
impairment. I will not have it denied me.
Michael Gillan Peckitt
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