I've tried using the bowling ramps, but it's hard to get the necessary
velocity, and doesn't give a good "bowling experience," IMHO.

We've done activities at work I couldn't "conventionally" participate in,
and I thought of it as a leadership skill to say what I could do, and what
my potential limitations were.  I've worked in the disabilities field for 20
years, and my supervisors have always been supportive, but if we looked for
activities everyone could participate in "conventionally," there wouldn't be
many options available to us.  That said, people with disabilities need to
meet the world half way, even though it seems to contradict the GB Shaw
quote I've adopted as my sigline.

On Oct 31, 2007 1:31 PM, Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 18:29:37 Linda Walker wrote:
> > I am able bodied but I do know that thalidomide was a totally
> > preventable and horrific limb deformity birth defect. I find being
> > asked to bowl while missing fingers incredibly harsh and cruel. Had
> > the company said come and join us for the fun, keep score, drink some
> > beer, and root for the team that would be different. Or if they
> > leveled the playing field by taping the other members fingers
> > together and then seeing who was really last that would be ok with me
> > too. Case does go bowling and they have a metal contraption that he
> > sets the ball in and it automatically rolls down the lane. If she had
> > used that that might be ok as well. Where is the sense of fairness in
> > this? Don't people use handicapping in golf etc to even the playing
> field.
>
> Hi  Linda,
>
> Read the article a bit more carefully Linda, it says:-
>
> " I felt like a child using the ramp"
>
> This is what Case uses, but she chose not to (my wife Linda uses it when
> we go
> bowling).
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

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