Tomorrow my power chair comes back. I am conflicted. Not by the 900 dollar repair bill, which was enough to knock the wind out of me, but by the fact that I’m wondering about how to incorporate it back into my life. This stands in stark contrast as to how I felt when they took […]
Author by Cathy Grant I wanted to start off this year on a positive note, so I decided to talk about one of my favorite surprises of 2016; that being the comedy Speechless on ABC. I’m not one to get excited at all about TV but when a staff person showed me the trailer […]
Because the word ‘invalid’ sounds different when it references an argument or a point someone is making than it does when referring to people with disabilities. That little bit of difference makes it sound like it’s two different words with two different spellings, it isn’t. I’m not going to go off on a rant about […]
“It’s nice,” I said, “because I thought that being without the power chair would decrease my independence and in fact it’s increased it.” I was talking to someone about the fact that, with my power chair in the shop, I had expected to do less, to go to fewer places, to have my life significantly […]
People thought him funny. And because they thought him funny, they laughed at him. All he had tried to do was to be assertive and stand his ground. In fact, he had done that, but in doing so he made himself ridiculous in the eyes of pretty much everyone around. What had happened was pretty […]
They arrived at the top of the ramp, started down, and then spotted me, racing down towards them, and pulled back to wait. The disabled access to the north mall means going under Bloor Street so there’s a long ramp down and then a long ramp up. I enjoy this ramp because it’s got hand […]
Photo Description: a person, whose face cannot be seen, is wearing a white tee shirt with the words: WHY BE RACIST, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC OR TRANSPHOBIC WHEN YOU COULD JUST BE QUIET? I am writing this post feeling cautious and I think that I’d like to begin to ask you to read it with caution as […]
Click on picture above document need adobe reader see it download it at www.adobe.com This new guide, funded with the support of the Vancouver Foundation, is meant to assist self-advocates and families considering starting a user- or family- governed group and to aid them in meeting their employment goals. The guide will also be […]
Sunday was a big day for me. As many of you know, my power wheelchair has been in the shop for several weeks now and as a result I’ve been pushing myself a lot more than I normally would during the holiday season. We’ve tried not to let the break down slow down what we […]
Memo to Two Disabled Women: All I was doing was being friendly. I had caught your eye as I entered and I nodded to you as I rolled by. The two of you were stopped and had pulled your power wheelchairs off to the side. You weren’t talking, it looked like you were waiting. My […]
