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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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