Rayna-  OMG girl-- you crack me up!

Paige


On Fri, 02 March 2001, Rayna Lamb wrote:

>
> If we all have chips on our shoulders, maybe that explains why most of
> us tilt to one side and have problems with our balance.  Perhaps we
> all need another chip on the other shoulder to even us up - and make
> us `normal'!!!
>
> Rayna
>
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:21:29AM -0500, Betty B wrote:
>     Rarely does anything I read on this contraption make me laugh out loud -- and
>     so heartily -- as your last line did.  Yes indeed, that is a certifiable
>     ISMism ("ISMism" -- ya gotta love it) potential.
>
>     I'll be damned if I'm not going to have that put on a small brass plaque for
>     some wall in my house.  I'm telling you, this kind of stuff puts the starch
>     right back in my spine.
>
>     I will tell you something about all this.  I do not have a damned chip on my
>     shoulder.  I'm just doing life, and keeping a lookout for the next needed
>     adaptation so that I don't skip a beat.  I love my life, and who I am --
>     exactly who I am!  To me, becoming a member of the disability community has
>     been a blessed event because of all of the things I have learned and am
>     learning, and for all the people I have met.  You guys have been worth my
>     legs.
>
>     It's not that they misunderstand, it's that they will counter a legitiment
>     ADAish complaint with that pat old response that the complainant has a chip
>     on his shoulder.
>
>     I am working hard and moving forward to get to a good mental place, and it
>     really jerks my jaw that this woman would dismiss that tremendous life effort
>     with no more intent than to avoid looking at herself in the mirror for one
>     minute.  I can't even type everything I want to say about this.
>
>     Betty
>     "My disability is irrelevant; my handicap is society."
>
>     In a message dated 03/02/2001 6:21:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>     [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>     > "Verily, thou shalt have
>     >  at her jugular, sunshine".
>     >



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