How is it working for IFTN anyway? Yeah the crowd that run the IFTAS??

IP addresses are great things altogether…

Then you will have to study Psychology and the human condition then. Why do people react in different ways to skin colour for example? Why do people react differently to people with different accents – take Overheardindublin for example and the use and abuse of the term “skanger”, “knacker” etc.

I’m sure there are countless other examples of the way people remark on different things and ones viewpoint of such matters will depend on what “group” one affiliates oneself with….

Alan

I have written about this stuff before sort of…I’m referring specifically to disability rather than illness and disease etc in these posts. I’m not against charitable giving and fund-raising – just charity and disability and the way in which it impacts on peoples notion of disability.

For more of my thoughts and yeah I will keep coming back to it all again!

People in need got sorted by me here

With revealing follow up post here

and over 2 years ago I wrote something on my old blog here

(By the way I now work as a full time professional disability advocate oh the prophesies of posting and all that… )

On a side note, your take on Gibson “catching himself” was exactly how it happened.

Sean There may well be an element of that as you say, because there always is a bit of that in everything, but I think it’s unfair to see the rise as just that. People (like me) are realising they’re lucky to what they have, are realising they’re in a position to raise funds and awareness and to genuinely make a difference, and are out there, voluntarily, shaking buckets, selling daffodils, hosting coffee mornings and so on all to be part of trying to make this country and the world a better place. Yes, there are massive needs for education, integration and understanding, but still, I go back to saying it’s better than nothing. For far too long Ireland has hidden the things it’s been told to be ashamed of, and that included people. There’s a generation out there that refuses to be like that, who want to help, and who just may not know the best way how. But at least they’re doing something.

As for remarks on body difference and disability, I’m not sure if it applies to comments on a statuette. People will often refer to objects as being unusually shaped, or even weird with no negative inference towards disability or body difference intended… because they’re not talking about people.

Adam - My take on it was he was joking about body deformity before he quickly realised where he was and what he was doing. From the other people who saw it – I got the same infernece from their reaction. I tend to double check these things cos as a disabled person my own opinion seems to be invalid from time to time!

I’m interested in following a line on the ease with which body difference and disability is still remarked upon.

And on the Hoddle I was making links between Gibson’s faith and his various recent indiscretions…and on my previous post on people putting their foot in it regarding disabled people.

Am I the only one who fails to see the offence within this? At the very least it’s hardly equatable to Glen Hoddle’s view that people with disabilities are disabled as a result of being evil in a past life.