tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post1373332384922032681..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: Drip, Drip, DripDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-42329510708835079832017-06-07T13:38:18.208-04:002017-06-07T13:38:18.208-04:00L,
It is so frustrating and demoralizing when peop...L,<br />It is so frustrating and demoralizing when people who should be allies and fellow community members seem to have no concept of what it means to be either an ally or a community member, yes? We people with disabilities form 15 percent of the world population, meaning there are more than one billion of us globally. But we can only be "one billion strong" if we are all strong together. (Paraphrasing here from something my boss sometimes says--I work at a cross-disability advocacy organization)<br /><br />Although some of us deaf folks are perfectly cool folks, and the younger generation of deaf folks seem to be learning to be more intersectional in their inclusion, unfortunately deaf people of course are exposed to all the same myths as everyone else about disabilities other than our own and end up with the same range of attitudes as hearing people. I have known a few deaf wheelchair users who have faced their share of ignorance within the deaf community, usually similar to the exact same kind of ignorance that any wheelchair user (deaf or hearing) confronts from society in general. Of course it is not any more excusable for a deaf person than it is for a hearing person, even if I might wish that more of us did better than the person you describe.<br /><br />Is it ableism when both of you use wheelchairs (albeit, different types), or just being a big jerk? Still sounds like an aggravating experience whether you blame his being a jerk on ableism or not.<br />Andrea Shettle, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16984732076766787818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-70563609712466169502017-06-07T00:16:37.624-04:002017-06-07T00:16:37.624-04:00I found this interesting.
What are your thoughts...I found this interesting. <br /><br />What are your thoughts about ableism by disabled people? <br /><br />(I use a power wheelchair, all these incidents were when I was out in my wheelchair).<br /><br />1) The Deaf man with an extremely large hearing aid (cochlear implant?) who spoke/behaved to me in an incredibly patronising/condescending way when we were both using a lift (elevator);<br /><br />2) the man with a guide dog who got very cross with me when I asked politely if I could get past him. (The way the train carriages are set up, seating for people with guide dogs is directly opposite seating for wheelchair users. In my experience, it's best not to sit opposite a guide dog if you can, because guide dog + powerchair *completely* blocks the aisle and then passengers trying to get off the train fall all over you. It's better to ask the guide dog user if you can get past, and then go onwards to the next wheelchair bay along in the carriage instead.)<br /><br />3) The woman with a three-wheeled walking frame who got very irate at me for being on the train and wanting to get off at the same stop as her, despite me assuring her multiple times that I had pressed the intercom button and asked the train driver for more time, so there would be plenty of time for both of us to get off at the same station.<br /><br />4) On the train, I needed a manual wheelchair user to move so I could get past in my power wheelchair.<br /><br />The configuration of the train + seated passengers was such that he had *heaps* of room to move out of my way, but I couldn't get past him to where I needed to go to get off the train unless he moved.<br /><br />Me: Please move, I need to get past.<br /><br />Him [shouts angrily]: FUCK OFF!<br /><br />Me: Please move, I need to get past.<br /><br />Him: *ignores*<br /><br />Me: sloooooowly starts to try to squeeze past in narrow gap, hoping that this will prompt him to move.<br /><br />Him: *ignores*<br /><br />Me: accidentally bangs my power-wheelchair hard into manual chair, painfully jarring my right hand/wrist/arm/shoulder that my physiotherapist had just treated, undoing some or all of my physiotherapists work.<br /><br />Him [shouts angrily]: Are you QUITE ALL RIGHT THERE?<br /><br />Me: Finally gets past him<br /><br />Him [shouts angrily down the train carriage]: MOW EVERYONE DOWN WHY DON'T YOU.<br /><br />I can't believe he wouldn't just *move*. I asked politely, it was obvious I couldn't get past without him moving, and he had *heaps* of room to move out of my way.Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18285070926705237161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-22680475801441028162017-06-06T09:45:39.955-04:002017-06-06T09:45:39.955-04:00well written...a logical examination in the distor...well written...a logical examination in the distorted beliefs that are the basis of the behavior you describe...would love to see this expanded a bit into a presentation for junior high age to high school age students in some setting....or in an anti bullying training....usually the responses are based in emotion only. <br />clairesmumUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13382503094929375543noreply@blogger.com