The musings of an Aussie viewing the World waist high .... from a wheelchair
August 26, 2011
Faith is belief in things we can not see. Indeed. It is also I think a belief in things we have seen, remotely in other places or historically in my own life but can’t find currently. This includes closer inspection of overseas models of disability. I wonder if people living with a disability here in [...]
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April 7, 2011
This guy is really funny, and smart. I know. I watched one or two of the episodes of the Oprah Winfrey “reality show” he was on. He clearly has an interest in a broader range of issues than his own Cerebral Palsy. Although quite open it seems to owning up to it — like me [...]
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February 9, 2011
Stella’s editorial on Ramp Up is spot on. We tolerate being just tolerated. We talk about respect, we might ask for it. We don’t expect equality . Therefore logically we don’t get it as often as we tell ourselves privately we should. We tolerate really bad weather. We tolerate that annoying person who sits next [...]
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January 26, 2011
I was going through my feed reader (as you do when sleep is hard)and came across a Google beta service called Knol a searchable tool where you post essay bits on topics you have some knowledge in and can have folks collaborate on it or not. I searched for the social model of disability and [...]
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January 9, 2011
It was indeed a beautiful Sunday. After staying up late watching any movie made in a parent trap theme, Parent Trap I, Parent Trap II, and the 1980s remake of the Parent Trap (don’t you just love what you can get on YouTube?) I slept really late, which was lovely and incredibly needed. I finally [...]
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December 28, 2010
I’ve been listening to podcasts of Late Night Live. Philip Adams and I would probably not agree on much, but I do find him fascinating as a thinker and as an exposure to other good thinkers. The other day, I was listening to him talking to Bill Moss, who has a rare dystrophy, who runs [...]
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December 13, 2010
First UK Survey in 13 Years Reveals Significant Barriers to Participation in Society for Disabled Persons. Based on the post from FWD, this report is hardly surprising, but S E Smith makes some interesting points firstly around the social model of disability. Many of the obstacles encountered by people with disabilities are created by society, [...]
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October 21, 2010
I’ve been watching survivor episodes on YouTube while I haven’t been particularly well. I find the show and other reality television fascinating. Originally, I thought that was because I am a self-confessed “connoisseur of human folly”. I’m now not so sure that is the reason. I like watching the dynamics between individuals; but what I [...]
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September 9, 2010
Historically I could divide this blog into two topics: the “disability” stuff and the “book” stuff. This book is a novel about disability, so I’m covered both ways. While it was at times a challenge to get through the book. pacing more than content, I find myself with the book now finished and paid forward [...]
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September 6, 2010
I’m going to do a series of posts on things I wish those without apparent disability understood or did differently. It is from my perspective as a person who uses a wheelchair, but hope it can be useful more broadly. So to start with: Footpaths: their use and misuses My top 5 things six things [...]
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