Two only tangentially related links...
Jan. 24th, 2006 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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One on the ever-popular "would you prevent your disability(s) from ever happening ever again?" question, which I'm not answering because I'm still slightly fuzzy.
And another one on left-handedness.
This woman wrote into a company that makes products for lefties (knives, scissors, can openers, novelty clocks that run backwards, that sort of thing) to... as near as I can tell, rant that by making products designed to be used with the left-hand dominant (instead of the right hand dominant) you're somehow forcing children to view being left-handed as a disability, and making them perform badly. Something like that....
Because she's never had problems.
Before we move on, let us take a minute to laugh at her self-righteous naivete. *laughs* Thank you.
The two links are connecting in my mind. In one, we've got the normal discussion of "what makes a disability" and "what's positive about whatever-it-is" and all that. And in the other, we've got somebody saying that having some simple, inexpensive accomodations to make your life easier, instead of going through a lot of effort to assimilate, is bad for you, because it's making you look and feel different.
*laughs* It just seems so strange to me, the two discussions. And they seem so... connected, even though they're talking about completely different things.
And another one on left-handedness.
This woman wrote into a company that makes products for lefties (knives, scissors, can openers, novelty clocks that run backwards, that sort of thing) to... as near as I can tell, rant that by making products designed to be used with the left-hand dominant (instead of the right hand dominant) you're somehow forcing children to view being left-handed as a disability, and making them perform badly. Something like that....
Because she's never had problems.
Before we move on, let us take a minute to laugh at her self-righteous naivete. *laughs* Thank you.
The two links are connecting in my mind. In one, we've got the normal discussion of "what makes a disability" and "what's positive about whatever-it-is" and all that. And in the other, we've got somebody saying that having some simple, inexpensive accomodations to make your life easier, instead of going through a lot of effort to assimilate, is bad for you, because it's making you look and feel different.
*laughs* It just seems so strange to me, the two discussions. And they seem so... connected, even though they're talking about completely different things.
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Date: 2006-01-24 04:25 am (UTC)And things might be easier now in the school system, but back when I was a child, almost no one knew how to teach and support lefties in penmanship and fine motor skills. . . . Even today, I find, that most people without physio training don't understand that it's more than "mirroring the grip" to assist a leftie in writing!