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Continuing the srs bizness

themadmermaid
2007-08-31 03:51 am UTC (link)

I think that what you are talking about extends to most areas of disability advocacy and law, not just ADA. Acceptance and inclusion of persons with physical disabilities, starting even in grade school, is much greater than those whose disabilities are developmental, emotional, or intellectual.

For one thing, as you've pointed out, it's fairly easy to do things to physically accommodate people with no other type of support need. Also, in America, returning war veterans with injuries were a major factor the realization of the worth of people with disabilities, which means that at first we decided that people that needed support in the motor domains were actually valuable citizens.

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	Re: Continuing the srs bizness frequentmouse 2007-08-31 03:55 am UTC (link)
	And meanwhile returning veterans with PTSD get court marshalled for displaying symptoms of their disabiling condition. I could make a list... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Continuing the srs bizness themadmermaid 2007-08-31 04:07 am UTC (link)
	I think we do the worst job helping people with mental and emotional disabilities. Even if we are cheesy and condescending about developmental problems, we at least pretend to help. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Continuing the srs bizness

jerel
2007-09-01 09:57 pm UTC (link)

I think we do the worst job helping people with mental and emotional disabilities

Because too many people still think PTSD is a fancy name for "weak and can't cope." That depressed people just have to cheer up. That folks with anxiety disorders need to calm down. They forget that the brain is also an organ, and can have something physically wrong with it, e.g makes too much of a chemical or not enough. Since the problem is with the head, they think it's all "in our heads."

Whoops. No more thoughts on yaoi today.

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	Re: Continuing the srs bizness littlest_lurker 2007-08-31 05:58 am UTC (link)
	And the ones that don't have that happen to them still come back to a Veteran's care system that is woefully unequipped to handle them (the physically and psychological wounded). Because of advanced medical care soldiers that might have otherwise been killed can return home, but to an incredibly broken and underfunded VA system that cannot properly care for them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Continuing the srs bizness vigilanterodent 2007-08-31 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	It's funny how we do a much better job by them when it's absolute life-or-death than we do at what comes after the life-or-death. Wait, not funny. Incredibly, painfully sad in the worst way, is what I meant to say. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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