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".
    >