The following posts are actually “email interviews” with bloggers with disabilities. Most of them volunteered to help me by responding to my (almost desperate) calls for bloggers with disabilities so that I could send them a list of questions and hopefully learn a little more about them and their disabilities.
The thing about blogging and technology is that we cannot see the other person behind the monitor. We may be visiting each other’s blogs so very often and yet we do not know them. Or we may hear or read about their disabilities on their blogs yet we do not know what they are going through as a person.
Hence, I’ve listed a couple of questions and sent them to “my volunteers” in the hopes of getting to know them more personally, instead of just reading their blog and commenting on the pictures they take. The questions are tailored to help us understand where they come from, and what they have gone through to be where they are today.
The “email interviews” weren’t conducted to glorify anybody, instead, I hope that we can all benefit from them by learning more about what a person with disabilities go through in his daily life, and that simple act of kindness from our part goes a long way in ensuring that these people with disabilities do not get side-kicked and forgotten.
We sometimes forget, or overlook, that toilets for people with disabilities are meant for them. We forget that wheelchairs are a necessity. We forget that people with disabilities are also human beings with feelings. And we sometimes are over-protective and that we forget that they can take care of themselves..
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Hmm…somehow this entry prompted me to comment about something.
i’ve seen disabled people who worked very hard towards achieving their goals; trying to depend independent and not to rely on anyone else as much as possible. i’ve seen blind people studying in the same uni as me (with the same facilities and same treatment from the others)…i’ve seen handicapped people working their ass off to make money. these people really deserved all the respect..
but, at the same time, bear in mind that there are also disabled people who use their disabilities to gain public sympathy for their own advantage (eg: con man). And not to mention normal people who take advantage of the facilities/benefits provided for disabled. Really despise those people…
so yeah, not all disabled people deserve our sympathy.
p/s: ignore my spelling and grammatical mistakes. it’s almost 2am here..lol
Hi,
My name is Karen, and I am a 56 year old disabled woman with Cerebral Palsy and a learning disability. I have trudged forward with all obstacles in my path! What you say is so true. I have my own website and would like some help, guidance, and advice as to make my blog reach others with the kindness and depth you have. I also need help to find a publisher to publish my re-written book. I would love to be able to talk and correspond with you. There is so much to share and ask but not enough space to do it all in, thus, I await your reply.
Yours kindly,
Karen Lynn
P.S. you can read more about my life and what I have accomplished at http://www.whispersofhope.org/
Until then…