Why mess with a very good thing. I didn't notice anything wrong.
Joanne
----- Original Message -----
From: Barber, Kenneth L. <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: The Before time


> >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?
>