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Greetings:
This is just a note to reference something I am thinking about a good deal and toward future disability related events and activities. I would be interested in conversation on this; I know others who have dialogued about physical dysfunction/impairment based disabilities, and seek a non-intrusive way in the context of not returning to "medical models" because many are not ill or not laid low by injuries and should not be thought of as sick or "needing to be fixed."
The whole question of models in itself and whether one needs any is in itself compelling but may be a discussion for another occasion.
But presently one wants to build on the wonderful progress of the Working Group and the general Ad Hoc events preceding and to come.
Underneath these issues, whatever type of disability, is the need and deserving of respect whenever people or people and systems interface.
There are tremendous attitudinal barriers that must be brought down, how people act toward each other and think of each other - and the understanding which is growing by all these good efforts must also include how people are "treated" in medical settings. There is a great deal to note about this context which can be peremptorily quieted if not seen as a matter of human rights and dignity.
Just a few thoughts, and will keep studying the matter in background.
:) LDMF.
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