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Magenta Raine <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Mon, 22 May 2000 16:12:43 EDT
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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

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