Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!104!419!Rich.Harper From: Rich.Harper@f419.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Rich Harper) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Decade Of The Disabled Message-ID: <9437@bunker.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 90 03:10:02 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Rich.Harper@f419.n104.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/419 - The Home Board BBS, Westminster CO Lines: 25 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 6110 No comment on the deaf people. But would say that once you have to join the disabled folks after having lived your life as an abled person, you do tend to be insecure. Like myself. I became disabled because of problems in breathing and arthritis. Now, all of my training and experience in the work world is down the drain, and I must learn something completely new. And there are few companies that will give a man over 50 the time of day in the US. So I am feeling mighty insecure. The biggest problem is the fact that the arthritis is permenant, but they think that the breathing problem will or might get better and this is the primary disability. So I have to have a review in about a year. If they classify me as being able to work, I will recieve no more benifits. I guess, then, I will be pushing hamburgers like so many of the other older folks. <> P. S. Happy Holidays to all of you in OZ. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!104!419!Rich.Harper Internet: Rich.Harper@f419.n104.z1.fidonet.org