Disabled and Inferior are not equivalents, nor ever were. Even an Olympic
champion high jumper would find a 25ft electric fence disabling and you
don't have to be one of Seligman's dogs to see that.
It is the barriers constructed by an economic and supposedly physical and
mental elite that are disabling, and in order to dismantle them we have to
stop fooling ourselves that the problem is in us.
Larry
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> Hi,
> What we need to do is stop representing ourselves as 'disabled', or
> inferior. Likewise, we need to stop talking about 'barriers', as if they
> just happened. Barriers to employment are most often people's actions of
> discriminatory exclusion.
>
> Pam
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