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From: Ann.Parsons@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Parsons)
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Subject: Re: NCF Disabled New Word Contest
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Date: 30 Oct 90 04:14:52 GMT
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Hi James,

Well, now, you've hit the nail on the head when you say that maybe they should 
have asked disabled persons what they thought of the whole issue. That, my 
dear James, is the crux of the whole issue! They went ahead with "good 
intentions" to *tell* *us* how we should call ourselves and how we should 
think about ourselves and how we would benefit from *their* *help*. This is 
the attitude which has *crippled* all of us. People who think they know best 
do things for us and we are the beneficiaries of misinformation, misdirected 
programs, wasted college degrees, dependent on the omniciant agency, and on 
and on and on. This is why I am so against this kind of Malarkiface. 
Malarkiface is a Parsonsism. it is a combination of Malarky and artifice. It 
means something which is made badly or artificially which is nonsense. The 
combination of nonsense and bad formation is awesome. It doesn't help. It sets 
us backward it doesn't allow us to move forward, it binds us not frees us. 

When will people stop looking at a person with a disability as a different 
entity? When will people begin to say, I want to get to know Ann, Vixen, 
James, etc, not The Blind, The deaf, the able bodied? Sorry, soap box put 
away. Excuse me folks, for my ranting but for God's sake!!!!

Take care, see you on-line.

Ann P.

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