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Do you think it’s an insignificant part of your real life, or the most important aspect of you?
Written by Sean on Friday, May 23, 1997
It is not insignificant, but neither is it the most important aspect. It is undoubtedly a part of me, and those who fail to recognize that miss the whole me. I can be made more or less significant by the attitudes and behaviors of others.
For example: Those who say “We never think of you as DISABLED you’re just you” are the very ones who still arrange to meet in inaccessible places and profess surprise when I take a rain check or ask them to move. By ignoring it they make it more of a problem!
Those who recognize that being in a chair is part of me are the ones who will ask if a place is ok or if I’d prefer somewhere else.
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