tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post6396356917098571425..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: ZharaDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-77642703307675861112008-03-18T12:00:00.000-04:002008-03-18T12:00:00.000-04:00That's my point, when I criticise people who say a...That's my point, when I criticise people who say autism isn't a disability.Ettinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08230821659466586897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-58061669175459324222008-03-18T05:59:00.000-04:002008-03-18T05:59:00.000-04:00I define myself as challenged. I am challenged by ...I define myself as challenged. I am challenged by my diabetes, my neuropathy, my never ending pain, my seeming inability to sometimes get this computer to do as I wish, by raising a mentally challenged child, by society in general and the people who work at Wal-Mart in particular, and so many other things that space here prohibits listing them. Yes, I am challenged but day by day I seem to meet those challenges. How can I possibly define myself by just one of those things? And who would I stand against? Perhaps those people who would act as to provoke me or hold me back. Surely they too are challenged...perhaps they are soul sick or have some other disorder that prevents them from having empathy and compassion. I guess we are all challenged, so who do we let in and who do we keep out?gracie1956https://www.blogger.com/profile/17209573738617425688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-34223084006669076522008-03-17T16:15:00.000-04:002008-03-17T16:15:00.000-04:00I just left this huge comment, saw a spelling mist...I just left this huge comment, saw a spelling mistake, copied the comment, deleted it, and went to repost it. It was gone. Forever, like the dodo.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, what I said was something like this.<BR/><BR/>I do get your point. I agree that the disabled are set apart. But I disagree with your implication that the abled exist as a group. The fracturing, self destruction and oppression exist on all levels.<BR/><BR/>I am a woman. Therefore I have been called 'bitch', 'c*nt', 'skank' and 'ho', as well as other, less offensive but more pervasive names. I'm heavy so I've been called 'fat', 'lardass', 'beluga', and my personal favourite high-school nickname, 'Sumo Shannon'. Little children are among the most unpopular creatures on the planet. I've heard them called 'brats', 'larvae', and 'crotchdroppings'.<BR/><BR/>I would say that the weak will always be oppressed by those who think they are (or want to be) powerful, but I don't want to call us all weak (yes, I identify with you because I, too, am a member of a long-maligned and feared demographic - women). Nor do I want to call every insecure, hate-filled, egotistical patriarchist "powerful".<BR/><BR/>And I can't remember the last paragraph. Rest assured it was both incisive and thought-provoking. Possibly also witty.Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704810407872873565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-67123148357684921792008-03-17T16:04:00.000-04:002008-03-17T16:04:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704810407872873565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-15777340489447723552008-03-17T14:52:00.000-04:002008-03-17T14:52:00.000-04:00Wonderful post and Andrea...that is just beautiful...Wonderful post and Andrea...that is just beautiful. I printed it out to share with others.<BR/> TammyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-5543150466753316702008-03-17T09:45:00.000-04:002008-03-17T09:45:00.000-04:00Indeed we stand together.But we do not stand toget...Indeed we stand together.<BR/><BR/>But we do not stand together against others -- <BR/><BR/>we stand together against fear<BR/>we stand together against hatred<BR/>we stand together against loathing<BR/>we stand together against foolishness,<BR/><BR/>whether it is found amongst those unlike ourselves, or those like ourselves.<BR/><BR/>andreaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-80757341122198068632008-03-17T09:18:00.000-04:002008-03-17T09:18:00.000-04:00Chills. Well put.I'm speechless.Chills. Well put.<BR/>I'm speechless.Keihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04095184831191402113noreply@blogger.com