i hope you do not think that i am chasing you. even random postings as you have time i consider to be contibutions to our group.
to answer your question, a person with disabilities is not obligated to educate anyone any more than anyone else is obligated.
i feel it is courageous to have to admit ones ignorance and ask to "really" be educated. the difference is if you are asking because you really want to understand and be able to help or if you are just being mean and rude. to ask about weigh is being mean usually because weight is generally well know, asking about something that is not nearly as well known might be genuine.
as far as taking a chance on irritating someone, you can irritate someone without asking a question. depending on ones day someone can just push a shopping cart too slow and irritate someone.
i guess it is the difference in stupid and ignorance. ignorance can be fixed, but stupid can not be fixed. what makes a difference is motive.
while i am not obligated to educate i do like to educate because it helps those coming after us. i however don't feel that anyone else has to feel that way. if i feel someone is really being rude i can crash them with the best.
give it a day and if if you still want to leave the list email us and deri, kat or myself can take you off. you do have friends on the list :-).
--- On Mon, 5/26/08, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: what were your childhoods like?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, May 26, 2008, 12:11 AM
> having written my last email, i am going to seem insane, but
> realing the
> email below, i have to ask
> "why is it courageous for an adult to ask about a
> pwd?" i see people all
> the time who make me wonder this or that, but I'd never
> invade their day by
> asking personal questions. i just know the world is full
> of all kinds and
> really understanding a person comes only by getting to know
> them. having them
> answer a few questions would only give me some facts and
> runs the risk of
> irritating them.
>
> if a person went up to an over weight person and started
> asking weight
> related questions, that would be considered very rude. if
> someone went up to
> people of certain races and asked racial questions, that
> would be very odd. i
> could go on and on, but i do wonder why the feeling is pwd
> are obligated to
> educate when other groups aren't held to that.
>
> i really am going now - and i can see you all at my heels
> chasing me out.
>
> i wish you all well.
>
>
> In a message dated 5/10/2008 11:58:12 AM Pacific Daylight
> Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> Your comments are kind of abrupt and don't really
> educate the folks
> who had the courage to ask you...Now if they were being
> rude and not
> genuinely interested then I would be quick too...But what
> if they
> really want to understand PWD better? I guess it is just
> the teacher
> in me always trying to educate people. When I get asked I
> usuall
> have a couple minute conversation!! Course, I like to
> talk alot, too!!
>
>
>
>
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