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(anonymous-Anticare)Don't start pitting anyone with a disability.
Replies: 8Last Post Mar. 16 9:43am by doremi
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I would like to keep this account anonymous because originally this is AntiCare. I've been waiting for awhile to reopen my account to say this. Yet, it's taking to long.. and the urge to say this is killing me. Please don't check who this account is. Thanks.

Anyway I myself was born with Spinibifida. As I was being developed the spine in my back had broken in the process. Causing me to loss feeling and nerves in
my legs. It doesn't mean it affected my brain.

I'm really sick of everyones looks. I couldn't care less about the disgust looks. It's just the looks of pity. I assure that just because I can't walk it doesn't mean I'm limited by things. I can and have done everything I wanted. Here's an example of a view:

dancing
water guns
Basketball
Jumped roped
Camping
Rock climbing
White Water Rafting
Soon-doing the zip line
I walked- at a younger age using a standing frame.Moving the frame from side to side.

Yet, the looks of pity towards me aren't the only ones that make me sad. It's the looks of everyone with a disability. I assure just because they are limited in speech,hearing,seeing, movement in body, and just stuck in your own world it doesn't mean they aren't capable of not doing anything.

I knew a girl who was paralyzed from the neck down. (she died last year) She had a heart of gold. I remember just looking at her like someone without a disability. I even looked her solely in the eyes when she spoke to me without feeling pain towards her. She was very creative in thoughts.

I also knew two kids with autism. I never compared severities between the two. The reason because just like everyone else they are two different people with weaks and strengths. Everybody has that.

I would just like to clear up that you shouldn't pity anyone. You know why? Because I damn assure you they are capable of doing something. I for one was motivated by others by being able to look past my own disability and stopped sucking in the pity I had seen.  around me. They to have a purpose to be here. Don't feel sorry..


9:05 am on Mar. 16, 2008
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m8 uve done more dan me n im not disabled

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Atomic440


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Good on you.
I'm against pity to disabled people. I would think it would be very degrading for the person to be pitied when all they want is to be accepted

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well said!! its like that for most people with a promblem in their lives, like my mum died when i was littlew and when i tell people they give me this look, its really annoying. If i had a mum i wouldnt be any different!

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That was good reading. Thank you for putting something worth while on LW.

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yeah, okay, then why is it that when people don't pay attention to the disabled, they claim that no one "cares" about them when, in reality, few people care about each other, disabled or not?

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Quote: from branflakes at 9:13 am on Mar. 16, 2008

yeah, okay, then why is it that when people don't pay attention to the disabled, they claim that no one "cares" about them when, in reality, few people care about each other, disabled or not?

No offense but some people do neglect the feelings of others. That the only feeling they get in the first place is pity.


9:15 am on Mar. 16, 2008
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i really don't like it when people tease or mock disabled people. it just makes me wanna get up and slap the mess out of them. if only people knew what its like then i'm sure that they wouldn't do stupid stuff like that.

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Thankx for saying that. I feel the same way.

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