Comments on: Disability and diversity in the public space http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/23/disability-and-diversity-in-the-public-space/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: louise http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/23/disability-and-diversity-in-the-public-space/comment-page-1/#comment-77 louise Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:09:12 +0000 http://louisebolotin.com/?p=50#comment-77 Thanks Ben. So sorry to hear of your ex-partner's hassles with the Blue Badge. If you have a visible disability, because you're in a wheelchair or are missing an arm, people are too embarrassed to look you in the eye and if it's invisible you get so much hassle from people who think you can't possibly be entitled to whatever because you look so normal! I feel for those with HIV too, because there is so much additional stigma, not to mention fear and ignorance about the realities of HIV. Thanks Ben. So sorry to hear of your ex-partner’s hassles with the Blue Badge. If you have a visible disability, because you’re in a wheelchair or are missing an arm, people are too embarrassed to look you in the eye and if it’s invisible you get so much hassle from people who think you can’t possibly be entitled to whatever because you look so normal! I feel for those with HIV too, because there is so much additional stigma, not to mention fear and ignorance about the realities of HIV.

]]> By: Ben Light http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/23/disability-and-diversity-in-the-public-space/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Ben Light Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:40:36 +0000 http://louisebolotin.com/?p=50#comment-76 This is a great post and you are so right in your comment back. My ex partner has HIV and has similar issues viz the use of a disabled car parking badge... the times he's been collared by traffic wardens! This is a great post and you are so right in your comment back. My ex partner has HIV and has similar issues viz the use of a disabled car parking badge… the times he’s been collared by traffic wardens!

]]> By: louise http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/23/disability-and-diversity-in-the-public-space/comment-page-1/#comment-75 louise Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:45:13 +0000 http://louisebolotin.com/?p=50#comment-75 Thanks for the comments. I have a disability myself, at least in the legal sense - I don't really feel disabled by it but it's tiresome having to explain why I have a concessionary travel pass (because I'd be refused a driving licence) and sometimes I get pulled out by bus drivers because I;m not in chair and I'm wearing heels so they can't quite figure out what's "wrong" with me. How much harder it must be for Cerrie and so many others when I can at least pass as "normal" on the outside. If we were to return to the society of yesteryear, I'd be doubly doomed as an epileptic of Jewish background. Cerrie's future on TV will be a marker of how far we have really progressed as a society. Thanks for the comments. I have a disability myself, at least in the legal sense – I don’t really feel disabled by it but it’s tiresome having to explain why I have a concessionary travel pass (because I’d be refused a driving licence) and sometimes I get pulled out by bus drivers because I;m not in chair and I’m wearing heels so they can’t quite figure out what’s “wrong” with me. How much harder it must be for Cerrie and so many others when I can at least pass as “normal” on the outside.

If we were to return to the society of yesteryear, I’d be doubly doomed as an epileptic of Jewish background.

Cerrie’s future on TV will be a marker of how far we have really progressed as a society.

]]> By: clair lewis http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/23/disability-and-diversity-in-the-public-space/comment-page-1/#comment-74 clair lewis Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:30:04 +0000 http://louisebolotin.com/?p=50#comment-74 wicked blog! wicked blog!

]]> By: Old_Reprobate http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/23/disability-and-diversity-in-the-public-space/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Old_Reprobate Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:25:09 +0000 http://louisebolotin.com/?p=50#comment-73 Wonderful article, thank you... succinctly, cogently and coherently argued. Daily Mail Parents... get back behind your prejudiced curtains & leave the real world to real people! Wonderful article, thank you… succinctly, cogently and coherently argued. Daily Mail Parents… get back behind your prejudiced curtains & leave the real world to real people!

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