Comments on: fear, ignorance and disabilities http://www.moritherapy.org/article/fear-ignorance-and-disabilities/ making lives better, making better lives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Disabled People http://www.moritherapy.org/article/fear-ignorance-and-disabilities/comment-page-1/#comment-238282 Disabled People Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:35:13 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/fear-ignorance-and-disabilities/#comment-238282 The internet is changing the way people view the disabled. Many disabled people have their own blogs or homepages where they talk about their disabilities to help the world understand about it, how it affects their ability to function in the world and the struggles of day-to-day life when you have a disability. The internet is changing the way people view the disabled. Many disabled people have their own blogs or homepages where they talk about their disabilities to help the world understand about it, how it affects their ability to function in the world and the struggles of day-to-day life when you have a disability.

]]> By: anja merret - chatting to my generation » Blog Carnival of Observations on Life September 9, 2007 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/fear-ignorance-and-disabilities/comment-page-1/#comment-194922 anja merret - chatting to my generation » Blog Carnival of Observations on Life September 9, 2007 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:31:36 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/fear-ignorance-and-disabilities/#comment-194922 [...] isabella mori presents fear, ignorance and disabilities posted at change therapy. [...] [...] isabella mori presents fear, ignorance and disabilities posted at change therapy. [...]

]]> By: Nancy http://www.moritherapy.org/article/fear-ignorance-and-disabilities/comment-page-1/#comment-178125 Nancy Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:41:32 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/fear-ignorance-and-disabilities/#comment-178125 I navigate through these issues continually, in my neighbourhood (dtes). It's hard work -- when my dogs walk through human excrement (yes, it'd happened) it's hard to calm down and think it through: this human being didn't have a place to go, and/or was so out of it that they didn't know better. Or, that man who is loudly ranting down the street in a manner that elicits a sense of threat in me - he's lost in his own mental illness. Or that woman who follows me insisting that I do, in fact, have spare change - her lack of social skills are part of why she's having to do this. On the good days, I manage to remember we're really all in this together, and it isn't 'us' and 'them'. Most days, I try to put my blinders on. Many days, I'm judgemental. Posts like your remind me that I want to walk the line a little more caring-ly. I navigate through these issues continually, in my neighbourhood (dtes). It’s hard work — when my dogs walk through human excrement (yes, it’d happened) it’s hard to calm down and think it through: this human being didn’t have a place to go, and/or was so out of it that they didn’t know better. Or, that man who is loudly ranting down the street in a manner that elicits a sense of threat in me – he’s lost in his own mental illness. Or that woman who follows me insisting that I do, in fact, have spare change – her lack of social skills are part of why she’s having to do this.

On the good days, I manage to remember we’re really all in this together, and it isn’t ‘us’ and ‘them’. Most days, I try to put my blinders on. Many days, I’m judgemental.

Posts like your remind me that I want to walk the line a little more caring-ly.

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