Thank you, disability campaigners, for the difference you’ve made to my life
Posted: 08 Nov 2015, 09:53Imagine how ashamed of my body I would have been as a girl, being told that it was offensive enough to merit removal
Without people like Jane Campbell, who fought for the Disability Discrimination Act 20 years ago, I can’t imagine where I would have been today
Posted: 08 Nov 2015, 10:18tha22222 go90
Re: Thank you, disabil you’ve made to my life
Posted: 08 Nov 2015, 11:24tha22222
One of my friends, who has cerebral palsy, was sent away to school, while her able brother went to the local school, she always thought her parents were ashamed of her. So sad
One of my friends, who has cerebral palsy, was sent away to school, while her able brother went to the local school, she always thought her parents were ashamed of her. So sad
Re: Thank you, disability campaigners, for the difference yo
Posted: 08 Nov 2015, 13:39I worked as a housemother for partially deaf children and they came to board at 4 years of age until 18.
As you have said Annie, so sad and wrong.
As you have said Annie, so sad and wrong.
Re: Thank you, disability campaigners, for the difference yo
Posted: 08 Nov 2015, 14:46So sad, and to think people have to campaign for disability rights for the things we take for granted. tha22222
I was 11 months old when the Disability Discrimination Act became law, 20 years ago this week. As I approach my 21st birthday, it’s sobering to think that when I was born, there wasn’t a single piece of legislation protecting the rights of disabled people in the UK and that as I lay on the floor with my soft toys, people just like me – but infinitely more courageous – were out on the streets fighting to be recognised as equal. From where I sit now, it is hard to believe.
It is even more sobering to consider what my life may have been like without the act. Of course it’s impossible to know, yet I am certain that I would not have fared as well as I have.