My suggestion is VARI-ABLED , all msers r differently ABLED not disabled, we all vary day to day hour to hour as to what we can and can’t do x
Interesting thread. However we choose to refer to ourselves lets keep educating the public.
Even after this past summer and all the goodwill which came from the Paralympics we just this week had to ask a man driving for a well known company to move his lorry because he was parked in the only disabled parking spot.
To his credit he apologised and moved it immediately but it drives home (ha!) the point that education is the best tool.
Will there always be people who do this? Yes (so no point in nastiness or getting one’s good self wound up). But we can still keep at it and take any opportunity to nicely educate people.
S.
Hmmm? I reckon if someone is in receipt of DLA, then they are disabled.
poll
Changing the name won’t help - it’s peoples attitudes that need to change - through education about the issues disabled people face doing ordinary everyday things.
Agree with Poll, if you’re claiming and receiving DLA then you are disabled - not sure how this will be affected when the change to PIP is made???
i quite like
'physically/mentally challenged. cos thats how i feel
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Agree with Poll, if you’re claiming and receiving DLA then you are disabled - not sure how this will be affected when the change to PIP is made?
PIPPLED : )
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Agree with Poll, if you’re claiming and receiving DLA then you are disabled - not sure how this will be affected when the change to PIP is made?
PIPPLED : )
I REALLY don’t like the word ‘disabled’ and much prefer something like ‘less abled’. I know it isn’t easy to find an alternative. Although things have changed, I still recall and am influenced by (ok I realise I shouldn’t be, but it is very ingrained) the attitudes I grew up with, and that included the negativity surrounding the word disabled. Besides which, I don’t think of myself as disabled - I have to find alternative ways to do some things but I am capable of doing many things, including working full time.
Yes, sorry to say this but I’m unable to shake off those negative associations with the word disabled. Some time ago someone posted an idea about changing the logo to a much more active person in a wheelchair - that might help to encourage the view that wheelchair users are still active (and capable!).
At least your not bald, so one out of three is good!..ouch…
How about bodily bvggered…perhaps not
H
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You don’t think MS is a disibility…are you kidding…depending at how much it affects you, what makes ‘an illness’ less of an issue!
Does this mean that someone with heart desiese isn’t disabled, or my Dad who ended up in a wheelchair because of a lung desiese was suddenly able…don’t think so.
Love it & yes you are…
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