Monday, December 10, 2007

Dear Able-bodied People....

...your discomfort with me and my very obvious disability and method of getting around is not my problem. Keep it to yourself. And if you can't think of anything sensible and adult to say to me (hint - "does it [my scooter] go in reverse?", and, "Oooh, when do we get a go on that?", are neither of the above), especially when you encounter me at an event for non-profit workers when I am there as someone who has created and developed a non-profit organisation from the ground up, then you really shouldn't be working in the fields that you are. We don't exist solely for you to do good works on.

And I thought I had problems with social contact... :-/

1 comment:

bint alshamsa said...

Thank you for this! I am so tired of being treated as if I'm a child that's just there to be entertained whenever non-disabled people see me some place