Read my other posts of this evening and I hope you will see in context that
impairment is a judgement that something is not as it should be, it is a
less than.
You are what you are, there is no negative value in that but if you call
that status of what you are "impairment" then you are saying that something
is "wrong"
Even if I lost a leg tommorow I would not call it impairment merely a new
status, not withstanding it would be an inconvenience.
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Simon Stevens
> (CEO, Enable)
> Sent: 01 September 2004 02:35
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New Book
>
>
> Larry,
>
> So having an impairment, in my case, cerebral palsy, is wrong and
> negative?
> Am I not allowed to be proud of who I am?
>
> Please explain this because I find your desire that only your way of
> thinking should be allowed concerning and somewhat arrogance.
>
> If you want to reinvent the wheel, presumably to ensure
> neurodiversity comes
> up on top, it may help to explain it to us lesser mortals! So we can
> understand the error of our ways and how unimportant our lives are now
> compared to yours and other people with neurodiversity :).
>
> Simon
>
> --
> Simon Stevens
> Chief Executive, Enable Enterprises
>
>
>
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