tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825922693778704581.post227530752305917920..comments2023-05-10T10:31:33.772-04:00Comments on Chelsey Blair--Sense and Disability: Taken Over by the FearChelseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279604060499054571noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825922693778704581.post-84297468805174189962010-09-13T05:17:00.000-04:002010-09-13T05:17:00.000-04:00Dear ChelseyGreat blog! I was wondering whether yo...Dear Chelsey<br><br>Great blog! I was wondering whether you could drop me an email - I'd love to talk to you as part of my research for my dissertation.<br><br>All the best<br><br>PaulPaulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825922693778704581.post-10238195096112539492010-02-13T19:08:24.000-05:002010-02-13T19:08:24.000-05:00Yup. I've said this for years... disabled peop...Yup. I've said this for years... disabled people are seen as an "Other," which leads to the perception that we're all the same because we're all different (from "normal" people). And that false dichotomy of "same differentness" leads to fear when ABs actually interact with us and realize that our needs are not one size fits all... and that leads to us being robbed of chances, and working ten times as hard to get half the breaks. Most of the time I'm not too bitter about that... I think it just caught me offguard, moving from my teen years to adult. "The system" - IDEA, ADA, health care, etc, worked wonderfully for me as a kid - so wonderfully that I rarely thought about it at all. And then I aged out and all of a sudden encountered the attitude of "prove it (before we help you)," "grovel," and "why should we help *you*?"<br><br>The shame of it is that that societal attitude that makes it so hard for us to succeed is the same factor that's preventing most disabled people in the US from ever *achieving* a widely recognized role model status. It's not that we can't do it... but trying to do it as a part of "the system" is difficult to impossible, so most of the disabled role models out there are people who came from affluent families who had the option of skirting the system when they needed to.<br><br>Which means the rest of us have nothing but sheer guts and our dreams to carry us through.Megnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825922693778704581.post-2852401943338395812010-02-13T19:13:59.000-05:002010-02-13T19:13:59.000-05:00Exactly. IDEA, ADA, all that was wonderful growing...Exactly. IDEA, ADA, all that was wonderful growing up, but now I'm very disillusioned with the system.Chelseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825922693778704581.post-78566338003809508732010-02-14T02:27:28.000-05:002010-02-14T02:27:28.000-05:00Perfectly worded. A+Perfectly worded. A+Danielle Lavignehttp://daniellelavigne.comnoreply@blogger.com