Just here for a moment I know I haven't been blogging - its boring but I am ill.
Just popped in to say - proud to hear bendy girl on Radio 4 You & Yours this lunchtime just saddened that she didn't get more air time.
If you go to the link below you will be able to listen. However, be very aware that an individual named Mark Littlewood may upset you a great deal with his views on what the disabled should do with their lives.
Oh and I could write a really long ranty post about how he upset me personally - Insurance agaisnt my disability. I am 46 should my mother have insured in pregnancy that I was not born disabled.
I know I shouldn't be shocked but I was astounded of the bigotry that exists in this country still. Some of the callers were profoundly shocking in their views on the disabled. We should not go out, we should not socialise? I beg your pardon. Suprised they were given air time, why are people like this given so much airtime when actually I think they could possibly be breaking the law under the DDA, if these remarks were made at other minorities it would be a criminal offence.
But it seems its OK to suggest that disabled people should not go out, have friends, etc.... shocked and saddened.
Oh and by the way to the callers who think I shouldn't go out etc. much of the time I cannot because I am in too much ^&*(*&^%$ pain, plus other disabling 'afflictions' as Mark Littlewood describes a disability.
Far too angry to write anymore, probably a good job too.
http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.com/2011/05/radio-4-you-yours.html
6 comments:
Unfortunately there are a lot of scaryily ignorant people in this world.
I'm sorry you haven't been able to blog, I've missed you.
Oh my heavens! I can't really comment (since I am deaf and can't hear the program) but based on the comments alone I am shocked beyond... well. What arses.
About the "disabled". The nice thing about OUR disabilities is we know what kind we have. You can say you have bendy disease, I can say I'm deaf, have cogfog and trip all the time but did you think about this factoid? EVERY SINGLE PERSON has a disability.
But we know what ours are and they don't. LOL.
Mark Littlewood reveal his, don't you think? =) (foot in mouth disease among others...)
Oh thank you both for stopping by just when I was beginning to think the world had gone all horrid! Here you are, pouring calming words onto my addled brain and reminding me that the world is actually full of lovely people.
Oh Trish, I think BBC Radio 4, used to provide transcripts of shows but I can't find that facility again but I will look again as I am intrigued as to where that went.
It seems though you and I have more 'afflictions' in common than we may have realised lol. I just love the little smiley hugs on your picture so very much.
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Remember too, that the majority of people who ring in to talk back radio are, by default, mental pygmies.
The rest of us are out there living life and trying our damnedest to make the world a better place.
Being a sufferer from depression I can somewhat identify with you in that it's something that is frequently mocked and made light of in general conversation and is something that can't be 'seen' so therefore it doesn't exist, does it?
Stopped in via Kim. I listened to a bit of the radio program and then had to stop because I was/am frothing at the bit. For starters we are people WITH a disability, NOT disabled people. Our disability doesn't/shouldn't define us. And yes, walk a mile in my shoes before you start making broad assumptions.
And I well remember a turkey not long after my diagnosis saying that I didn't looked disabled so really should get a second or even a third opinion.
Some people are wastes of space. Fortunately there are plenty of others out there.
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