I saw a post on Facebook yesterday written by a woman who, that day, was getting a wheelchair and she was devastated. The comments were all caring, if ablist, about how hard she fought for, with an implied loss of, her independence. Now, I don’t know this woman. I see her name every now and […]
We’d just gotten into the car to head off to the Palm Sunday service at our church. and Joe fired up the engine after all the seat belts were well and truly secured, when Sadie asked to play a ‘car game’ called ‘ABC Animal.’ This is a game that has been played over many, many years and […]
By Bree Robertson My name is Bree and I live in Prince George BC. Last summer I was invited by Vela Microboards to speak at conference in Melbourne, Australia! It was the World Congress for the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD). My presentation was about my self-directed life, […]
Story by Cathy Grant So, last week a staff read to me a CBC article. At its heart the article was about the new levels of automation that are affecting and going to affect many Canadian businesses within the next ten years. The part the interested both me and my staff was around the […]
We were huddled up around the soup station. Sadie loves soup. Joe loves soup, I like soup and wanted to see what the veggie options were, Ruby reviles soup and was just with us to see what decisions were being made before she went over to the mac and cheese station. Joe was reading off […]
This post is not about my quest to achieve a 5K push. But. It begins there. Yesterday I thought I had it in me to make 4K. I’d done some smaller pushes but had topped out at 2.6K. But I was itching to try for 4 and I’d arranged it so that I had time […]
My disability has meaning. My disability matters. I just had someone say to me that they ‘don’t think of me as being disabled.’ I’m afraid I rather lost it on them. Sadly, I was a bit incoherent in my response because the statement upset me so very much. You see, like many people with disabilities, […]
Yesterday I arrived at a meeting nearly an hour and a half early. Traffic had been better than anticipated and, then, well, um, I got the time wrong. So in that hour and a half I decided to lap the mall that the restaurant was attached to, I mean, why not? Joe decided to head […]
I ended up chatting with a young fellow, to me that’s around 30, with a disability on a ride to work. He asked me what I did for a living and then told me about his job, about which he was quite proud. Without even lowering his voice to become conspiratorial, he openly said that […]
I just had a food accident. On the trip from fork to gob there is a bit of territory over my shirt that has to be traversed. A piece of yolk leapt from it’s bed of toast and landed on my shirt just beside the buttons, near the top. I quickly brushed it away and […]
