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From: Linda.Iverson@f10.n130.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Iverson)
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Subject: Way Too Expensive!
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Date: 27 Nov 90 21:35:37 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Hi, Ross!
 
This is to acknowledge your message and say I had a lovely day Thanksgiving 
and hope you had a good nap.  I can't say any more any better than 
what you said.  After reading messages here and in Abled, it seems 
that no disability is free from expense, and often the end-user has 
no way to get the very thing that would change his life by providing 
more independence.  It's a bit of a paradox that the State often does 
buy equipment and sometimes very expensive stuff and provide it to 
someone, but that same State often won't buy some little relatively 
inexpensive thing!  All of this is frustrating, and you know what else 
makes me really angry?  These programs for kids where they "pretend" 
to have a disability--temporarily blindfold a child so he can see what 
it's like to be blind, have a kid sit in a wheelchair for an few minutes, 
etc.  All that does is convince the kid the disability is just as bad 
as they thought, and probably worse.  If I want to know how a person 
does something I'll ask.  Anyway, let's say I sat in this wheelchair. 
 If it really got tough I know I can get out.  If you have a permanent 

disability you live with it and find alternative ways to do things.
 
Well, enough; you'll probably have to take a nap again.  Now, let's 
see if we can find a way to get all of us the devices we need!
 
Take care!
 
Linda
 

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