If you could take 6 months off work (or however it is you spend your life) where would you go?
1st Month – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia I would stay at The Grand Mercure in the centre of town. Their beds have the best doonas and amongst the best wheelchair accessible bathrooms. I’d spend my time just wandering around, going to gigs, pubs and talking to interesting strangers. Oh, and having manicures and pedicures.
2nd Month – Devon, England. My mum is from Devon. I’d like to see if the pictures that I have painted in my head from all of her stories are anything like the real Devon. I also want to try a real Cornish Pastie.
Freya
The Hierarchy
Most of us have had the experience of an able-bodied person thinking that they are ‘better’ than us as they are able-bodied and we are not. But what about times where you are in the company of someone who has the same condition as you, only they can walk and you can’t. What if, because of this, they assume they are better than you?
I know it sounds weird and uncomfortable. It sounds like some new lame form of discrimination and, well, I’m thinking that it could well be.
Let me describe my adventure into the dark side of human nature. I was out to dinner with a few people the other night and, just by chance, most of us had disabilities. I and another person had cerebral palsy. They could walk.
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