>I don't understand why disabled people I knew in the "before time" didn't
>tell me about some of these things.  Maybe they thought I wouldn't have
>listened.
they listen, but just don't hear. just this week end my wife and i were
talking about college entrance test. she just ask my scores. i told here and
she said "my lord, why did you go into the government?"  i told her about
graduating in the top 10 % of my class and being offered a job, making
brooms." went over the other cases of discrimination and the fact there was
no ADA. went over the fact that i should be 2-3 grades higher with the
quallity of work i did (even in the government). now this is my wife. she
has heard most of this before and still does not understand completely.

>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?