Hope everyone is having a happy Easter Sunday. This was not a lazy Sunday for me. I know that most people were cooking and eating and worshipping this Easter. I was getting ready to speak to my classes. I checked to make sure I had my videos and books that I use. thought I lost a video and almost had a heart attack. But I found it again resting quietly in a different. I made more copies of the new business cards just in case anyone wanted one. I have the outfit picked out. I have even talked to my care provider to she if she can come early. (She will if she can get up) I have done this class so many times it is old hat. I always get a bit hyper the night before. I am terrified I won't wake up in time to get ready properly. I am just not used to getting up early.
I have spoken to these classes for over 10 years now. This is a college class on inclusion for undergraduate and graduate students. These classes are close to my heart. I believe that speaking to those classes is my way to get people to look at things differently. Use my experiences, my words and what I show you to figure out that just because you have a disability doesn't mean you can't do anything. What is labeled isn't always what is true. There is a huge difference between support for success and pity. Always look at the individal not the disabilty.
I get so sick and tired of people (kids and adults) thinking they are doing me a favor by wanting to fell sorry for me alone and single with a disability. I hear people say they will pray for me to walk. Or that they will pray to heal me. I am NOT SICK. I AM DISABLED. Don't pray for me to walk. Pray for me to get a job so I can take care of myself and make my own way in the world. I am not God's mistake and God does not have to end my suffering. My problems were not made by God they were made by man. It is attitude and stupidity that holds people with disabilities behind not the disability. I hope I get that across tomorrow. If I do maybe then those students will become teachers and help their students to see HOW you treat people as they pass through your life is what makes a decent human being. Not who is popular, not your or your parents money, not if your sports team won. A decent human being sees the human in all of us Happy Easter!!
I have spoken to these classes for over 10 years now. This is a college class on inclusion for undergraduate and graduate students. These classes are close to my heart. I believe that speaking to those classes is my way to get people to look at things differently. Use my experiences, my words and what I show you to figure out that just because you have a disability doesn't mean you can't do anything. What is labeled isn't always what is true. There is a huge difference between support for success and pity. Always look at the individal not the disabilty.
I get so sick and tired of people (kids and adults) thinking they are doing me a favor by wanting to fell sorry for me alone and single with a disability. I hear people say they will pray for me to walk. Or that they will pray to heal me. I am NOT SICK. I AM DISABLED. Don't pray for me to walk. Pray for me to get a job so I can take care of myself and make my own way in the world. I am not God's mistake and God does not have to end my suffering. My problems were not made by God they were made by man. It is attitude and stupidity that holds people with disabilities behind not the disability. I hope I get that across tomorrow. If I do maybe then those students will become teachers and help their students to see HOW you treat people as they pass through your life is what makes a decent human being. Not who is popular, not your or your parents money, not if your sports team won. A decent human being sees the human in all of us Happy Easter!!
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