Blogging Against Disablism Day

by Ekie
We’re selling our house.  On the realtor’s sheet it asks if the house is handicapped-accessible.  Well, technically, no.  But also, technically, yes.  Because it is perfectly accessible and modified for one particular person’s disability – mine.  There are no noisy lights, there are lots of comfy couches, there are earplugs available for when it [...]

moving

by ekie
so my mother is putting our house on the market.  our house.  MY house.  where I have lived for exactly the number of years I’ve been alive plus the time I spent gestating.  Where she has lived for so long, she’s lost track, but she’s thinking it’s a bit more than 30 years.  She’s [...]

you know you’re in the disability community when….

There are a lot of lists that start out saying, ‘you know you’re from’ or ‘you know you’re a ‘.  But for different people, the list I am trying to make could say different things.  ‘You know you have a disability when’ ‘you know your child has special needs when’ ‘you know you’ve been spending [...]

Confessions of a crappy protester

by ekie
For the record, I don’t think that I’d make a very good protester.
I don’t really like standing around all that much.  I can walk for miles quite easily, but standing tends to tire me out a lot, I don’t know why.  I also don’t like noise, for the simple reason that it is loud, [...]

lesson learned

by ekie
I didn’t get the job.
I knew that I shouldn’t get my hopes up.  Yet despite that, I did.  I got my hopes up.  I honestly believed that the prayers of my mother, that the chanting of a woman I knew (she said her chanting had never failed) and that the whole positive-image thing would [...]

update

by ekie
I feel as if I’ve been a remiss member of this blog.  It’s not that I’ve been neglecting it, just that I keep starting entries and not thinking that they’re good enough, or disability-related enough, to be posted, so I don’t.  So today, here’s a mostly-non-disability related update.
1.  Work on the living room (see [...]

Blogging Against Disablism Day

 by ekie
 
 (n.b.  I don’t know how to blog against something.  I can push against something or protest against something, but I only know how to blog normally.  but here goes anyway.)
 
            When I was maybe eight or nine, a new store opened in a mall near my house, and on my first visit there, I [...]

keep going

Spring has finally come to my neck of the woods.
The air is warm, kids play outside, forsythia and hyacinth bloom, and all the little pots of seeds I planted on the patio are showing tiny shoots of green.  Today, the trees popped – the green blooms came out.  All of them, all at once.  They [...]

Disability Blog Carnival Entry

The Hardest Part
By ekie

            When I heard of this Carnival’s theme, the answer to the question, ‘What is the hardest part?’ came swiftly, unbidden.  The answer lay there in my mind and sank into my body, to settle into the solid rock of pain with which I am so familiar.
            The hardest part of having [...]

Equal, not violent

by Ekie
I was very angry yesterday to read of one lawyer’s approach in the trial of a boy, who happens to have Asperger’s syndrome, who killed another high schooler last year.  Read the article here: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/07/odgren_hearing_focuses_on_aspergers/ and tell me – have you ever known any violent people with Asperger’s?
 Because forgive me if I’m wrong, but I’ve [...]