She uses a manual wheelchair which she cannot push because Medicare was too cheap to replace her power chair when it wore out. She has little education, very little money, no real family and little hope. You'll never see Jane in Chicken Soup because she would remind able-ist bigots of the shameful way they treat our people. He wasn't alone in his perception. There is no reason that public buildings, housing, transit, grocery stores and theaters should not be accessible.
Disabilities are nothing new.
Nondisabled people build the world so we cannot enter. . . What's at stake here is whether we are a minority group facing discrimination or a collection of 'unfortunate' individuals. Sharon Campbell struck a similar theme. Many people worked to explain in their messages that disabled people were hungering not for sappy sentimentality but for the power of the disability community itself. We can be honest with each other without worrying about how the other person will interpret our disability experience.