Disability Issues

[aishah]

http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/foru...ead.php?t=4990 is a thread with some disability news and discussion also

thanks for posting this. i love john franklin stephens' response, especially this part:

After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV.

I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash.

Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor.

the word "retard" upsets me a lot - my cerebral palsy was much more visible when i was younger and i got called that a lot. my family even called me that as a joke. (which i don't find funny.) i hate the implication that having a developmental disability (or even any other kind of disability) means you're automatically stupid, less, worthless, useless, an idiot. i hate that it's used as an insult, because i believe stephens is absolutely right about comparisons.