Anee,

Could you tell me more about the teen-centric lists and chats?  Sounds
interesting.  Thanks!

~Joy~

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anee Stanford" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: This list, Its clientelle, and some possibilities


> Hi-
>
> There are many fronts that progress needs to be made.  In the school
yards,
> in the workplace, in the healthcare field, in the comunity.  In middle
school
> the kids would alawys startel me for the fun of it.   In high school I
used a
> scooter and everyone used to "honk" at me.    I think Sandy is absoultly
> right in what she has said but I would like to sugest a bit of an
expansion
> of sorts.  We all must advocate for each other...not just kids and not
just
> adults--ALL OF US, TOGETHER, FOR EACH OTHER.  It's amazing how much kids
can
> do when they are inspired to do it.  We have to ispire them to do it--or
they
> have to be inspired to do it as was the case with me.  The imortent thing
is
> not how they get the insperation but that they do get the insperation.
>
> Last year one of my friends asked me to go and talk about disability
> awerness.  She asked me to vist the school she was working at and talk to
her
> class aought that I might be able to help boost the self-esteem of one the
> students who happened to have spina biffida and was haveing how shall I
put
> it an attitued/outlook problem, low selfesteem...you know the drill.  I
think
> that things like this could help too.  Not just in supporting the student
> with a disability but in educating there classmates that disability is ok.
>
> Alot of problems could be helped by more united advocey I think.   More
unity
> among those with disabilities.  Not just from the age group point of view
(I
> think the mentoring thing is a great idea)...but from the point of view
that
> many of what I call the disability camps don't work together to achive
> things--and to know that we are not alone in the challanges that we face.
We
> the CPers have alot to learn from the blind camp, the deaf camp, the SCI
> camp, and on and on.
>
>  I joined this group when I was like 15 because I wanted to talk to people
> who faced the same challanges as I did and had the same experiences as I
did.
>  We had moved from a place where there were lots of others  who had
> disabilities including cp but my highschool in mckinney texas only had one
> other physicaly disabled student who was mainstreemed.
>
> Oh by the way there are several mailing lists for kids with CP and there
is
> an internet chatroom having to do with teens and disabilities (they meet
on
> Thursdays.)  On aol there is a chat for teens with CP.
>
> Well I guess I've rambled on long enough,
>
> Anee Stanford
> http://www.geocities.com/aneecp/
> ICQ # 67019089
>
>
> In a message dated 8/17/00 12:03:34 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << Must EVERY child with a disability grow up in isolation?  Is the
disability
>  experience really a gauntlet to be run, where we honor ONLY those who
still
>  are alive at the end?  When are adults with disabilities going to become
>  pro-active in advocating for kids with disabilities?
>   >>
>