I quite see your point, and I agree -- and I guess I am spoilt, having
never been questioned about my "adulthood" -- but I do think that if you
want to be treated with respect, you need to show repect for others and
their time.  This is not unique to those with disabilities but to anyone
who has a working relationship with anyone else.

Believe me, I have utterly no repect for those who waste my time and show
no consideration for my job or how their actions affect others.

Kat

Original Message:
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From: Kendall David Corbett [log in to unmask]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:28:18 -0600
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Babysitter Issue


I've seen a couple of posts that suggest that people with disabilities
need to prove that they deserve to be treated as adults.  IMHO, since
people without disabilities are treated as adults without "proving"
their abilities, those of us with disabilities should not be held to a
different standard.

This may be a tough pill for some of our friends and family members to
swallow, but how many of our non-disabled siblings and friends had to
"prove" that they were "old enough" to not be treated as a child in
every are of their life?  It seemed from watching my siblings that it
was a natural, evolutionary process that is often ignored in the case of
people with disabilities.  There's a poster in the hallway at my office
that reads: "When you, see, meet, or think about a person with a
disability Presume Competence."

This is a link to the site where we got the poster.  Check out the site,
as Cathy Snow has a lot of good stuff on it!

http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/


Kendall 



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