Consequences
Has anyone perhaps thought that this, rather than being an example of something wrong with laws intending to protected the (severely) disadvantaged, is an example of something wrong with our societal attitude toward disability?
Every day I encounter some small new stone in the foundation for a social model of disability.
Perhaps if we would see people and think, not:
“burden,”
but:
“potential,”
we would reach a place of balance in this world.
three rivers fog » Second Shift for the Sick
| Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | 12:53 pm[...] Life would be so much better if we realized how much power we all have over each other — and how much power everyone else has over us — our interdependency. It is the concept out of which disability grows. And life would be so much better if we could look at this fact and see, not [...]