I’m reading The Mask of Benevolence by Harlan Lane. In it he argues that various professionals that claim to help the Deaf community are actually harming them. I was reminded again by the book about how many Deaf people do not see themselves as disabled, but rather as a linguistic/cultural minority. That the Americans with [...]
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Deafness as Disability
Posted in Disability/Autism, tagged aspergers syndrome, autism, autistic culture, deaf, deaf culture, deafness, disability, Disability/Autism on May 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Autism and Spiritual Experience
Posted in Disability/Autism, Health, tagged aspergers syndrome, autism, disability, meditation, spiritual experience on October 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Of all the aspects of my personal identity, the one that has probably had the most profound effect on my spiritual experience, and indeed life in general is being autistic. I was a highly verbal and intelligent child yet my parents and others could tell there was something rather odd about me. I got upset [...]
Accessibility
Posted in Disability/Autism, Pagan Community on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just today someone popped up on the Hellenion-Midwest list, introducing herself and expressing interest in Hyperborean Demos. She mentioned that she is deaf and uses a wheelchair. Naturally, she inquired if the place we were meeting was accessible. I had to write her e-mail telling her that it is not, as the room we meet [...]
Disability Rights Paper Pt 4
Posted in Disability/Autism on December 24, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Conclusion
The disability rights movement is truly a movement that is hidden in plain sight. We all benefit from reforms brought by the movement on a daily basis, yet many people are not aware of the events that led to these reforms or the determined activists who fought for them. There is a perception that [...]
Disability Rights Paper Pt 3
Posted in Disability/Autism on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Americans with Disabilities Act
In the early 1980s Justin Dart began work on legislation that led to the ADA. At this time, many disability rights groups were pessimistic about the likelihood of passing comprehensive disability legislation, feared backlash and were concerned about enforcing protections that already existed under Section 504, and maintaining funding for disability [...]
Disability Rights Paper Pt 2
Posted in Disability/Autism on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Activism in the Deaf Community
The deaf community, while part of the greater disability movement, is in some ways separate and even in conflict from it. Deaf people often see themselves as members of a linguistic minority rather than having a disability. Some of them even prefer to develop a separate community in which [...]
Holiday Greetings
Posted in Disability/Autism on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
To all my readers (….all 5 of them or whatever) have a Happy Winter Solstice, a Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas, Kwanzaa and any other holidays I may be forgetting.
I’ve posted the paper I wrote on the disability rights for my sociology class on the page labeled obviously “Disability Right” since it’s longer it takes up [...]
Class & Disability
Posted in Class, Disability/Autism on September 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Economic class plays a very pervasive role in disability. The most obvious factor of course, is that many disabled people live in poverty, off federal subsidies or even in homelessness, unemployed or underemployed.
But beyond the surface there is a more insidious truth- conditions of poverty often cause disabilities. Lower income people are more likely to [...]
