Dear Joss, this is why I mentioned choice. I feel the disability movement
can provide an awareness that there are alternatives to the medical model
without prescribing for each individual which choice should be taken.
Equally I feel that society needs to make it possible for people to actually
choose and live according to those choices. I have to believe that
emancipation does not have to be prescriptive. Regards, Sarah Supple.
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From: "McLeod" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: personal tragedy on large
You all seem to be assuming that any disabled person who doesn't see
themselves as oppressed must be embracing the medical model, and that they
require a gentle education to see themselves in a new light which, you
imply, is a truer one. You suggest that you are letting people make up
their own mind, by just 'guiding them', but might it not be that a disabled
person can live a perfectly good life as an intelligent individual without
engaging with this literature? No group holds a key to a true set of
beliefs about individuals. If a person with a disability chooses to see
that disability as peripheral to their existence, that's fine, isn't it?
Perhaps a person (with a disability) can just be themselves, without being
categorised into either a social or medical model.
Joss McLeod
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From: "Smith, Glenn" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: personal tragedy on large
> This question goes to the core of many aspects of identity and
oppresion -if
> someone does not recognise they are being opressed are they opressed ?
> ...and should they be helped to change their view - after all some people
> who are part of a 'group' seemingly oppressed often benefit from that
> oppression because their life and personality is suited to seeing the
world
> like that or seeing the world from a different angle may be
psychologically
> as damaging as being understood as an individual with a biomedical problem
> devoid of social context.
>
> From my own personal thoughts, letting people make up their own minds by
> pointing them in the direction of good, engaging and challenging reading
> material about understanding disability/chronic illness as contextual
> experiences that are subject to the usual
> social/cultural/historical/geographical pressures is the best way to
> address this dilemma. If this material enlightens them about
> experiences/reactions/problems in their life they could make no sense
> through a medical lense of disability understanding, then ten to one they
> will begin to understand their life with a disability as being socially
> defined too.
>
> Aftter that they can find their own balance between understanding their
life
> as biomedically and socially defined. Having both knowledge bases gives a
> great deal of empowerment in dealing with their own sense of self and the
> reactions of others etc - self education is the key i would say...
>
> All the Best
> Glenn
>
> Dr Glenn Smith,
> Research Fellow,
> London.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Mizelli
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 13/06/03 10:57
> Subject: personal tragedy on large
>
> Dear Listmembers,
>
> I am the chairperson of the national independent living movement in
> Austria.
> Situation there is like everywhereelse:
> oppression, paternalism, social exclusion and stuff like that. We have
> to go
> a long way to fight for our rights so.
> Part of the oppression is the use of the medical model of disability,
> and it
> is more the model of personal tragedy, that' s in use, even by disabled
> people themselves. Anyone an idea about how to deal with disabled
> persons,
> who beleave, their impairment and disability are a personal tragedy.
> Anyone
> experience?
>
> Regards
>
> Wolfgang Mizelli
>
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