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Hello, may I raise a question that comes up often and I feel recurs as a theme here in these groups; any ideas very welcome. I may have picked up some of this flavor from posts here as well. So I will frame it in terms of mental health and also, for example, physical pain issues.
There are voices saying the persons with psychiatric disabilities and, again, e.g., those in severe physical pain, just as examples, should be included in protection of rights, and realization of them, not just words.
At the same time, the price of being included if when one has not been also can mean the sacrifice (as to privacy) of what Justice Brandeis termed: 'the right to be left alone'. Not in the bad sense of marginalization, but in the self of autonomy, making one's own decisions - in present context.
When a group or individual has not been included in the past but one does not want to be spotlighted as "different," wants to be noticed but not "supervised" (or micro managed in the sense of overweeing restrictions) what are some ideas for achieving inclusion with balance not special treatment? All ideas will be so very welcome.
And sending best wishes for a real good day, LindaMF.
[L. D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D., Communication Coordination Committee of the UN (CCC/U.N.), Information Habitat, Speaker of the National Disability Party and Chronic Pain Caucus Chair; AARP AAUW ACLU APS, Member Human Rights Working Groups].
http://home.att.net/~ldmf/UN-self-determ.html (posts are waiting to be added but see the present database please and respond please and thank you).
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