Tag: NDIS

Disability Rights and Attitudes Life Journey
13/07/2023

Instead of the wheelchair being seen as freedom giving equipment the wheelchair is a society symbol of sickness, unhealthy and social ‘disability’

Write a book and it makes you an expert. Write an academic book and it is taught in education institutions and revered by the 1st class honours solution searchers. Say something often enough and people accept it as factual evidence. Free thinking is removed from the education curriculum and replaced by authoritarian consensus. The ‘disability’ stereotype was born and is continually reinforced via this process. […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes Life Journey
13/07/2023

Gregarious family life and powerful love intimacy is real in the life of people with broken bodies

Charismatic , charming, and humorous, Robin Francis Cavendish is another well publicised story of a man who was not ‘disabled’ by life or society in spite of his massively damaged body. The 2017 film Breathe, directed by his son, is based on the true story of Robin’s life. But does the film tell the full story… of a quadriplegics normal life? Robin refused to be […]

Australia Disability Life Journey
05/06/2023

The Social Model of Disability is a joke Joyce!

Australia’s proud culture was built on taking the Micky out of all and sundry especially ourselves. Jokes are a fantastic tool to allow people to see and be educated in the variation in culture and individual situations. An individual reaction to a joke provides an insight into that individual’s belief system. Nothing more, nothing less.   Offense comes from within the self and cannot be […]

Australia Disability Life Life Journey
25/05/2023

‘He’ is my husband; I am not his ‘carer’ so treat me like you treat everyone else’s wife

Diversity is a catch cry, all dressed up with nowhere to go in the discussion of disability embracement. Many people are overly concerned with cultural and linguistical diversity at the expense of rigorous discussion from free thinking and real lived experiences of people who have consistently and continually been included in somethings and excluded from other things.   The phrase “politically correct” is used to […]

Australia Disability Life Life Journey
13/05/2023

A boy is a boy! A girl is a girl! Anything else is adult exploitation using child injurious labels!

Around the world there as a fuzzy sight, a hazy sound, lurking to find the ‘incurable social misfits’ are the label makers. Job creators. Government funding activists. Their job is to twist the innocent psychology of children and those with permanent physical and mental impairments into money creating legends and myths. During my life I have never met a human that is not unique or […]