Sounds silly, these people shouldnt be gadding around trying to prove `something` They should be sat at home being waited on hand and foot.
That or try to get a real job and get on in life.
I mean, whats an employer to think when they see that on their CV? `Silly globetrotting teen` more than like.
(My cousins got Tourretts.)
My point is Tengu, people with physical disabilities want to be treated with respect by society and this is rightly so, but many do this by disassociating or insulting those of us who are otherwise disabled. The disability rights commission does a much poorer job of helping people out with neurological disability, I was unemployed for nearly 2 years and did nothing to help me and the job centres disability advisors shrugged their shoulders at my condition and my rights.
I am on the Autistic Spectrum,among other things. I have managed to pull myself up by the bootstraps alone so few people today would ever suspect how i started out. I now work for the Autistic Society. I have worked in the past for charities for people with physical disabilities. Most of the people I met were absolutely wonderful and looked after those among them with learning difficulties and hidden disabilities, together people learned to understand and empathise with each others disabilities which is why I found it a real shame to have watched that programme and see people who were too self-centered to work as a team with those who they refused to relate to. Many physically disabled people would have been upset with how that man was treated as well.
Also, I know you were just making an off hand comment there, you probably didnt realise my condition and my line of work, but I spent most days taking autistics out into the community. I spent all of yesterday taking a severely autistic man to his favorite football club. He is non-verbal, just screams. wears a nappy. most people, even those that work closely with him, assume him to be a vegetable. He isnt. He will write for you if he trusts you, thats how we know he is a football fan, follows politics and reads french newspapers, despite not being able to dress himself or go to the toilet. Thus, even within his frame of care, his needs are frequently not met because those delivering his care simply don't understand his condition, they refuse to believe it is him writing. This is lack of public awareness , interest and finance. There is plenty information out there could show these people how to understand and tolerate severe autism affectively but failure to see these people as legitmate human beings is seen by society as less shameful than failure to recognise the physically disabled as full human beings. It is an issue that should have been dealt with on the programe with the man with tourettes but it was not.
rant over. (sorry, yes Im long winded!)
