I wanted to do something a little different, so once a month Im hoping to have a guest post from one of my friends who have different disabilities. The purpose of this series is to show that we have lives like everyone else and to get people who dont have disabilities to maybe th... Read more

In the midst of all of the discussion about the rights of individuals with disabilities, sometimes the concept of personal responsibility gets lost. Basically, having a disability doesnt mean you get to trample everyone elses rights. Autism or Asperger Syndrome doesnt give you th... Read more

There are certain slang words that I would prefer people avoid when they are speaking with me or writing to me. Retard or retarded or any variation thereof are not acceptable to me. The current clinical term is cognitive disability or maybe intellectual disability. Because this t... Read more

The last month has been stressful, to say the least. I have been nursing a sick guinea pig she is a rescue and supposed to be a foster-pig; battling tight deadlines with my work that were made more difficult due to certain annoying characteristics of Word; trying to finish a stor... Read more

I wanted to do something a little different, so once a month Im hoping to have a guest post from one of my friends who have different disabilities. The purpose of this series is to show that we have lives like everyone else and to get people who dont have disabilities to maybe th... Read more