Hi Yes, I'm visually impaired. I'm also disabled when that letter drops on my door mat. But I'm not disabled while I write this email. I don't own a disability. But society disables people through it's common practices. Gena donning the tin hat <smiles> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:06 -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote: > In terms of disability labeling, I think visually impared is to vague. I > like blind for totally blind people, and partial for people who have site. > > But I've always hated disabled, I like the term diffaabled. Differently > abled. Disabled emplies we can't do sometime, diffabled emplies we do it > differently. > > Take care. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Daniel Dalton > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:30 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: debian gripes, accessibility, and labels, was: Re: > IntegratingSpeakup/ESpeakup into Debian boot process > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:50:06PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:08:55PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > First, I don't think the term "handicapped" is a good one. > > > > Interesting that we should get onto that topic. I personally am not > > that hot on the term disabled, it always makes me think of a car by > > the side of the road, with both blinkers flashing. I suppose we could > > No neither am I... It's not exactly true, how is a blind person disabled... > > > have a lively discussion for days on end, about how we should label > > ourselves, or about how others should refer to us, and we'd probably > > never reach a consensus. > > We could, and I think your right! :) I personally think "vision impaired" is > fine. > > Daniel. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Gena M0EBP http://ready2golinux.com
