OK, I see now.  I was wondering if you thought of yourself as being ill, or
perhaps trying to clarify what someone else said or wrote.

Where on Yahoo did you see this?  Do they have a CP group which includes
"illness" in its description?  You might want to write the moderator and
suggest she correct that terminology.

I pick my battles, so to speak.  I don' t attempt to correct every single
misconception I see about CP in a paper or on the Web.  If someone is
speaking to me, or in a presentation, and uses the word "illness," or
"disease,"  I'll make an effort to press the case for calling CP a
"condition."  However, it's a futile effort to correct everyone, IMHO.  I
just hope by educating a small number of people, I can educate a few more.

            Kathy S.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Jo Pink" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: A Question


> The reason I asked this question is because Ya-Hoo groups calls Cerebral
Palsy an illness.  Kathy Jo
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:   K. Salkin [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:   Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:03 PM
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> Subject:        Re: A Question
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> I'd like to know why  Kathy Jo asked the question.  Kathy?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "greer.bobby" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:49 AM
> Subject: Re: A Question
>
>
> > Kathy S.
> >
> >        In our society today, where everything is becoming viewed as a
> > "disease", why not CP? Of course, these other things, i.e., addiction;
are
> > termed disease for one purpose only, insurance reimbursement. CP is a
> chronic
> > condition, not a disease or an illness.
> > Just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions. LOL
> >
> > Bobby
> >
> > K. Salkin wrote:
> >
> > > I admit, that when I first read this question, my impulse was to fire
> off a
> > > quick and snappy response such as "are you kidding?  Of course not?"
> But
> > > actually it's not a bad question.  I'd bet if you asked a group of
> non-CP
> > > people this question, most of them would get it wrong.
> > >
> > > I'd also bet most non-CP folks (or more accurately able-bodied) would
> see us
> > > as diseased, not having a nonprogressive condition.
> > >
> > >         Kathy S.
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Kathy Jo Pink" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:21 PM
> > > > Subject: A Question
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Is Cerebral Palsy an illness?
> > > >