Rosaline
I know you asked Larry the question below, however, I hope its OK to share
my thought on this, as I, and other who lived with disabilities since
childhood or young adults struggle with the question as we meet the aging
process. I personally found that of course what we have is easier to accept
than change of any kind. For a while at least we wish for the pass. But
knowing that you can live without some part makes it easier to accept
further limitations. Dare, I say, that maybe as persons with disabilities
we have a more prepared view point on aging and process of limitation than
non disabled person
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:07 AM
Subject: Language!
> Hi Larry,
>
> Glad to see that you still have your sense of humour though.
>
> Re: your last paragraph, like you 'I do not miss the things I never had
> (i.e. arms & legs), only fear those which I am in danger of losing'. Does
> that mean that we accept our current situation as it is, but if our
> impairments (medical conditions) got worse, we would give-up, be defeated,
> mourn the loss of our independence? Or - Is that the same kind of fear
> that non-disabled people have about disabled people, hence their negative
> behaviour towards us? Or - both?
>
> Please keep your reply simple, remember I am not an academic ;-)
>
> Regards.
>
> Rosie.
>
> ps Perhaps you could send me one of your poems.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Arnold" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds" <[log in to unmask]>;
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:04 PM
> Subject: RE: *New Release* 'Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical
> Eugenics' Melinda Tankard Reist
>
>
>> Well to be honest I do get tied up in linguistical knots cos basically I
>> do
>> not trust language as an expression of my ideation, thought, intent nor
>> philosophy, all language is essentially metaphorical, but some is more
>> metaphorical than others.
>>
>> Having been in a medical based hospital situation today having to decide
>> on
>> some body mechanics whether I want to let nature take its course or let
>> some
>> knife merchant keep my hands funtioning as I wish them to,
>> notwithstanding
>> the design fault does not allow that.
>>
>> Yeah this is perhaps the point of sell out, I want my Landrover to keep
>> on
>> going, and my hands to continue to have the capacity to deal with it
>> never
>> mind Boyle and Thermodynamics. However philosophically speaking when my
>> Landie waits on the side of the road devoid of a spark, it is not
>> impaired,
>> it is still what it is, and if you were to decapitate me tommorow,
>> philosophically speaking I would just be funtioning in a different way :)
>> Providing food for worms perhaps?
>>
>> It can be hard living according to ones philosophy, but it underlies my
>> construction of this world and I don't miss the things I never had, only
>> fear those which I am in danger of losing and therein lies an interesting
>> discourse.
>>
>> Larry
>> A failure as a businessman, an asocialite, a worker by force of what I
>> believe in (is that voluntary?) Artist, Musician and Poet on an ever
>> changing trajectory of physical, mental and moral interface with my own
>> and
>> others percieved realities.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Rosaleen
>>> Moriarty-Simmonds
>>> Sent: 20 March 2006 15:12
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: *New Release* 'Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical
>>> Eugenics' Melinda Tankard Reist
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Larry,
>>>
>>> I understand the point you make.
>>>
>>> However, generally when referring to my 'Impairment' (Social Model speak
>>> rather than Medical Model) or medical condition I would say - "My
>>> impairment
>>> was caused by the drug thalidomide" - which is (in my view) only
>>> marginally
>>> shorter and a little less confusing, than describing my impairment as
>>> being - "Four limbed phocomelia caused by the drug thalidomide".
>>> [Phocomelia: seal like].
>>>
>>> When I am busy or in a hurry, I type "thalidomide impaired".
>>>
>>> Further, you would have me say - "I was relatively speaking screwed up
>>> by
>>> the pharmaceutical industry". All of the people whom I know that have
>>> impairments caused by the drug thalidomide, would agree with you,
>>> in so far
>>> as 'we were screwed by the pharmaceutical industry'. But I
>>> personally, am
>>> not "... screwed up ..." by the whole situation.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> Rosie -- a 45 year-old 'Disabled Woman', a 'Happy Wife', an
>>> 'Adoring Mum',
>>> a 'Successful Businesswoman', a 'School Governor', a 'Voluntary
>>> Worker', an
>>> 'Artist', an 'Auther' and a 'Socialite'. I also happen to have an
>>> Impairment caused by ... ;-)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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