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May. 30th, 2006
I've not been reading ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
alternet lately
May. 30th, 2006 08:49 am
So I completely missed the article on The Impending Police State.
Don't forget to check out the comments to the article after you read it.
Don't forget to check out the comments to the article after you read it.
This is an interesting editorial...
May. 30th, 2006 08:55 am
About autism, movies, and fear.
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Also, an article from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thornleaf about chelation.
Have at it, guys.
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Also, an article from
thornleaf about chelation.Have at it, guys.
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no_pity
. None of the disabled kids that I worked with when I was an advocate wanted to be disabled, especially the high functioning ones who could articulate what was going on and often said things like "I wish the autism/CP/Downs could go away." It broke my heart every damn time.
Y'know, it would break my heart too. It really would.
It also breaks my heart when I hear about little girls saying they wish they weren't so fat, and about little black kids wishing their hair were straighter or their skin lighter, or even about children saying they wished they didn't have freckles, or that their eyes were blue instead of brown. It breaks my heart when I hear about people trying desperately to not be gay anymore.
Because these are children, and adults too, who are being taught to hate a part of themselves. It's hard, it is, but the only solution that works - and works well, for people outside the affected group - is to educate others, and to make the world accessible to different people.
Setting up hypothetical discussions wherein people are encouraged to express their darkest fears about differences... I don't find that particularly helpful. Maybe it's just me.
Don't forget the apparently uneducable girl here, who thinks that all disabled people (or most, anyway) are confined to hospitals, unfulfilled, and nothing but a burden on others.
no_pity. None of the disabled kids that I worked with when I was an advocate wanted to be disabled, especially the high functioning ones who could articulate what was going on and often said things like "I wish the autism/CP/Downs could go away." It broke my heart every damn time.
Y'know, it would break my heart too. It really would.
It also breaks my heart when I hear about little girls saying they wish they weren't so fat, and about little black kids wishing their hair were straighter or their skin lighter, or even about children saying they wished they didn't have freckles, or that their eyes were blue instead of brown. It breaks my heart when I hear about people trying desperately to not be gay anymore.
Because these are children, and adults too, who are being taught to hate a part of themselves. It's hard, it is, but the only solution that works - and works well, for people outside the affected group - is to educate others, and to make the world accessible to different people.
Setting up hypothetical discussions wherein people are encouraged to express their darkest fears about differences... I don't find that particularly helpful. Maybe it's just me.
Don't forget the apparently uneducable girl here, who thinks that all disabled people (or most, anyway) are confined to hospitals, unfulfilled, and nothing but a burden on others.