Can someone handicap tell me their expirences of bieng handicap please?

Question

i would prefer them to be a bad experience
this is for a school play... i am trying to get peoples stories to use in a play that i am writing if you answer me i can give you more info

Answer 1

Why focus on bad experiences? Why not focus on the good ones?

Answering/ reading questions here is an experience. People have such prejudicial ideas about the capabilities of people with disabilities, especially cognitive ones. They seem to be one extreme or the other - they are child-like, angelic, and nice to stupid, dumb, and mean. The reality is there is no one way any person with a cognitive is - they are both and everything in between.

Answer 2

I am going to think outside the box here, and still answer your question. First off, I reallly do not like the term handicap, or handicapped. I prefer to be recognized as a person with a disability, minor in my case. Secondly, everyone, and I mean everyone, has some sort of disability. Think about it. Are you physically or mentally perfect? Lastly, the hardest thing for me as a person living with a disability is the ignorance and intolerance of other people. To answer your question, sometimes people stare at me. And sometimes peo. gossip, usu. other women, sadly. But this is anyone's call. As friends have pointed out to me: Are they staring or gossiping because of my health issues or because I am also very attractive, vibrant, and obviously intelligent? I have a strong presence. So even if I didn't have a disability, I might attract few "starers" and "haters." Thanks to peo. like this I have become very courageous. I have developed a lot of inner strength, a strong spirit, and a whole repertoire of nonviolent ways to calmly respond, or choose not to respond, to covert bullies. One day maybe they will learn from peo. like me and grow up. If you are going to write a play about people with disabilities, please tell the whole story, not just the difficult part. We are not victims. We are survivors.

Answer 3

Sorry Flakey,

None of my experiences are all that bad. Last year I became an RBK amputee. Since that time I've gotten a prosthetic and left my cane/crutches in the closet. I've gone where I want and when I want.

My goal was to attend this year's Minnesota Renaissance Festival. I have done that. The comments have been "Oh, what did you do to your knee?" when the people looked at the gel-sock that holds the leg on. They did not even realize that I had a prosthetic lower leg ...... and I was wearing a kilt! So, no really bad experiences for you, sorry.

Kev

Answer 4

I have a speech impairment so people miss interpreted what I say from time to time. 24 years ago as a school girl on a camp some girls (from normal schools) don't see any reason why my friend was at a special school, but because my speech was effected they throught I should be. they found it hard when I said I can read better they her.

Other bad experiences are from walking heavy footed early in the morning.

The word seams to be more Impairment or disability these day but not handicap
Cheers

Answer 5

Firstly handicapping is an attitude, the proper term is disability or someone who has a disability.

I am legally blind , completed university and started at a faculuty of education . Two weeks before graduation, despite having excellent grades the faculty of education at a large canadian university wouldn't grant me my B.Ed because they said no board of education would hire a ' blind' teacher. After two years of fighting them and threatening to take the university to court as well as public embarass them in the national media , I was granted my teaching degree after I went and repeated my teaching practicum.

This is not unusual for something like this to happen to disabled students.

Many people in society assume if one has one disability that we must also be mentally challenged and have all the other disabilities as well.

Applying for voc rehab I was told by a member of parliament that I was too normal , perhaps if I drooled more and looked slow I'd get my pension.

Answer 6

Well I can tell you this much: My mom had a stroke at my brothers funeral. She was taken to the hospital, they told her that she would never walk again and probably never talk again either. She has worked hard at it and now almost 3 years later now she can walk with aid and can talk as well. She can mow the grass, run a weed eater, hoe the garden, etc. She can do all that and more but she is paralyzed on her left side. She drags her left foot and has no use of her left hand.

That was a bad experience to us as right after she come home, dad had one too. Part of this story is in my profile if you want to read the rest of it.

Answer 7

My son is mentally handicapped and got called a retard at his job (he's a dishwasher). This guy also made him wash pots and pans (a separate job that the guy was hired to do.) My son is running back and forth trying to do both jobs while this guy is collecting a paycheck to hide out. One lady who works in the kitchen finally figured out what was happening and told my son to ask the cook what his job is. The other guy got fired when the story came out.
My son had been at that job for 3 years and never missed a day, was never late and worked every single holiday. The cook knew who to keep, that's for sure.

Answer 8

I got called "Extremely simple man" by a deputy commissioner of Worker's Comp with the Communist-wealth of Virginia after injuring my elbow back in 2004 due to my speech impairment. Little to say that this b*tch lost her job after I faxed a two-page letter demanding an apology, my resume/ cover-letter, the documentation where this b*tch called me this offensive name, for a total of over 30 pages straight to my state congressman, state senator, governor, and Worker's Comp Board. I faxed over 130 pages with-in an hour's time. I was never so pissed in my entire life as I was that day and I let the State of Virginia know it, too. I was told that my face and neck was blood red when I read the letter that I received from the state concerning my case against my former employer. My lawyer that I had b*tched me out for pulling the stunt that I did. Forget her, because I not only won my case but this arrogant, narrow-minded b*tch lost her job.

I also contacted the ACLU about 2 days later after I contacted all of my state representatives about what she said but those SOB's at the ACLU did not want to be bothered with my case. They stated that "This case does not fit their agenda" even though I pretty much got called a freaking "retard" by this damn state. No surprise!

Answer 9

You want a bad experience?
I'll tell you, wright about what you know. That will save you a bad experience.
Like the bad experience when your audiance leaves saying what crap that was.If you get that far.
but if you would like to have a bad experience get someone to duck tape you so you can only use one hand and leave you on your own for some time.Then you'll have your very own Bad Experience.

Answer 10

Since you spelled, "experiences", as "expirences", and "being" as "bieng". You may have the learning disorder disability of dyslexia. Answer the question yourself? For more information regarding your handicap see source below.