Image description: The words ‘stupid’ ‘ugly’ and ‘pig face’ surrounded by the colour of bruise place around a torso. The words ‘no because’ are pointing at the words.\ Over the last week, culminating with a workshop I did with people with disabilities yesterday, I have noticed a phenomenon which I don’t really understand […]
Image description: Three suitcases wait while yelling happens above them. We go back on the road today, a trip that will take us eventually to the Maritimes, and we’re busy getting ready. Things are packed. We haven’t ticked ‘yelling at each other’ off the list of final preparations yet but I’m sure we’ll manage […]
Image description: Line drawing of a ‘Certificate of Gimp Status’ made out to Dave Hingsburger and dated 2016 We opened the letter from the government expecting my tax refund cheque. Instead, we got a letter stating that I had to reapply in order to continue in my tax status as a disabled person. I was […]
Image description: a line drawing of a forearm receiving an electric shock So there is finally movement in the fight towards the banning of the use of electric shock as a ‘treatment’ option for children with disabilities. I have read a lot of response to this announcement. A lot of, forgive me, shock. A lot […]
In my early years I had so many difficulties making friends. I was such a loner when I went to school. I was called so many names in the book and my self esteem was low to the ground. In these early years I was going through many surgeries for my ears and also doing […]
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The Kamloops Self-Advocate allows people with mental and physical challenges to share their stories. There were people who thought that Kamloops’ Krystian Shaw wouldn’t be able to read or write. But Krystian never doubted himself. Though he was born with developmental delays, he has worked hard to achieve many of his dreams. One of them was […]
Author’s Note This particular column is a little different than my others. It was originally my entry into the 2015 Canada Writes contest, but I didn’t win. However, my test readers thought it was pretty good so I decided not to let good writing go to waste and publish it. Originally this essay was my […]
My name is Laura Clement and I was so happy to have a job. I used to work at Bruce’s Groceries a long time ago and I had transit back then because there was a bus. Where I live now there is bad bus service and I cannot always get to and from work on […]
Well for starters I really lucked out on getting the Reception job at CLBC! I was on leave for a while and not working at the time; I was with a job group called Polaris. One day the Director of Polaris mentioned the BOE Program to me. It was a course at Douglas College in […]
