>have you
>or anyone on this list tried to use the media (newspapers, radio, TV) to
>report on these topics? I have and I have found time and again, they
>don't care about disability issues. It's outrageous but so true. I write
>a disability column. If it's at all controversial, it's simply not
>printed. How many disability columnists do you have in your major
>newspapers? None I bet.
You are right, Val, it is outrageous! And no, I have not tried to use the
media to report on these topics; as a matter of fact, I am only now beginning
to find my voice in these matters. I have kept myself wrapped tightly in a
blanket of denial about my own disability, let alone anyone else's, for years.
One of the benefits of my being on the vent-users' and the different PPS lists
is that they are waking me up! You and several other people on this list are
far beyond me in this stuff. I appreciate your giving me a good dose of
reality, Val! Thanks!
Merry Christmas to Everyone!