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Reply To: | St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List |
Date: | Mon, 22 May 2000 16:12:43 EDT |
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Who wrote this? It's wonderful!
> >Mainstream media doesn't tell our stories the way they should be told. I
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> these people think they can spend the night on the street and know what it
> is like to be homeless, but they don't because they know that tomarrow
night
> they will be warm and comfortable. they think they can roll around for a
> day in a wheelchair or blindfolded and understand what it is like to be
> disabled, but they do not, because they know that tomarrow they will be
> walking, or seeing. part of disability is knowing that you'll not every
play
> 3rd base the way your brother does, that you'll never be on a highschool
> team, you can't even serve your country in the service. you know that 90 %
> of the opposite sex would not even thing about dating you, even those that
> are your friends would not ever consider you in a "dating way."
> part of being disabled is knowing that tomarrow will be the same, the next
> day, the day after that and on and on you are going to be disabled, then
you
> get old a find that it gets worse.
> how can anyone tell our story
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