Monday, May 15, 2006

Perplexing Remark On Dining Without the Disabled

<Meg saw every kind of disability imaginable, including combinations of disabilities; people in wheelchairs using respirators and portable iron lungs, short deaf people and blind wheelchair users.

After the conference, Meg went out to dinner with a friend. She couldn't believe how boring it was to be in a place where everyone was walking, talking and eating the same. She said that none of their hands talked and no one had a dog or a cane or a wheelchair or a respirator. "There was no wealth, no richness. I felt a loss.">>

Talk about not being able to look past the wheelchair.

Background: What it Means to be Disabled

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