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Show 372 Deadlines "Our society has come a long way toward accepting differences, but people still stare at disability. I can't go through the mall without having heads turn, and I don't think it s happening because I'm so outstandingly attractive. "It would be nice to blend in..." Most people do not know that I am writing so many of these columns from this hospital, I am thinking. Thank goodness. I would gag on all that pity. "The day people with disability are finally accepted as commonplace would be a momentous occasion. But I'm optimistic about its eventually happening. I think there are some obvious markers we can all watch in order to recognize that moment. For example, we will know people with disability have become apart of society when our unemployment levels approximate that ofthe rest of society, or at least when our annual incomes look more like we all live in the same country..." I have written this column for over two years now. How many from this very bed? A publishing syndicate is wanting to take it national and I am smiling at that thought. |
