Tag: wheelchair

05/08/2023

Two with mobility condition of paraplegia. One got much more due to his “disadvantaged” ‘Aboriginal’ socially constructed race heritage

The two men in the photos in this blog are Kevin Coombs and Bruno Secondo Moretti. Both were born in Australia in 1941. Both obtained the physical mobility impairment of paraplegia before adulthood. Both came from non-English cultural heritage. Bruno’s parents had immigrated from Italy and English was a second spoken language by Bruno. Bruno Moretti deserved to be recognised in a way that he […]

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 […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes Life Journey

05/07/2023

Polio is a good example to explain the difference between sickness and ‘disability’

At various times during the first half of the 20th century, with an upsurge in cases each summer, Poliomyelitis, commonly called polio struck randomly. Polio is a virus that spreads indiscriminately from human to human. A virus that socked individuals without warning and who once infected had no treatment besides time and tending to the symptoms. With similar numbers to the COVID19 virus, in about […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes

04/07/2023

The public transport ramp platform was wheelchair accessible, but the tram was not

Society needs help to get its act together in terms of access and travel and resources because the heat is too far away from the container for the water to boil. Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport, 2002 is 21 years old. During the COVID-19 pandemic, on a windy and cold day in the city of Melbourne, the writer caught a tram from Flinders Street […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes

03/07/2023

DISABILITY label is a grievous misdemeanour against freedom of living a normal life

“Hey mum can you give me the blind man’s phone number?” “Sorry son, I don’t know any blind men.” “I mean the man who makes blinds to cover the windows.” “Oh, yes sure. Here it is.” A crucial requirement of grasping the needs of another human being is to understand their life circumstances and experiences. Sometimes conceptual frameworks are used in an attempt to sense […]