i am at home mag, working, just checking mail while stuff runs.  i wrote
this. i am glad it struck you as being wonderful.
  the mental aspect of disability never occurs to those yocals. they can't
possibly get it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Magenta Raine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 4:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The Before time


Who wrote this? It's wonderful!
> >Mainstream media doesn't tell our stories the way they should be told.  I
>
>  these people think they can spend the night on the street and know what
it
>  is like to be homeless, but they don't because they know that tomarrow
night
>  they  will be warm and comfortable. they think they can roll around for a
>  day in a wheelchair or blindfolded and understand what it is like to be
>  disabled, but they do not, because they know that tomarrow they will be
>  walking, or seeing. part of disability is knowing that you'll not every
play
>  3rd base the way your brother does, that you'll never be on a highschool
>  team, you can't even serve your country in the service. you know that 90
%
>  of the opposite sex would not even thing about dating you, even those
that
>  are your friends would not ever consider you in a "dating way."
>  part of being disabled is knowing that tomarrow will be the same, the
next
>  day, the day after that and on and on you are going to be disabled, then
you
>  get old a find that it gets worse.
>    how can anyone tell our story