what a full day it's been! i woke up at a reasonable weekend time, decided to play on the internet for a while, then go to borders to redeem a free coffee from one of those frequent coffee cards
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What an amazing tale. It is sad how not that many years ago any sort of disfigurement or impairment was literally looked at as evil, and something to be hidden.
I may have mentioned that my aunt lost her leg when she was about eight (in the mid-50's). Because the only schools that had wheelchair access were for the mentally disabled, that is where she was forced to attend school.
We have come a long way, but we still have so much further to go.
i remember taking my 'child and society' class in college, and really letting the history of childhood sink in, the fact that 'miniature adults' would not have included me, the innate depravity period, how i would have been viewed. this might sound vain, but i think you can appreciate what i'm trying to say.
you have told me of your aunt before. the lumping together of such different situations is so frustrating to me... so ridiculous. some people's bodies look different (than what? aren't we all different, after all?) and some people's minds work differently... the two aren't necessarily connected, although sometimes they are, and this recognition is still slow in the coming.
we have come a long way, but every day that i talk and work with elissa and her mom, i see how much further we have to go.
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I may have mentioned that my aunt lost her leg when she was about eight (in the mid-50's). Because the only schools that had wheelchair access were for the mentally disabled, that is where she was forced to attend school.
We have come a long way, but we still have so much further to go.
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you have told me of your aunt before. the lumping together of such different situations is so frustrating to me... so ridiculous. some people's bodies look different (than what? aren't we all different, after all?) and some people's minds work differently... the two aren't necessarily connected, although sometimes they are, and this recognition is still slow in the coming.
we have come a long way, but every day that i talk and work with elissa and her mom, i see how much further we have to go.
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