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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to Sacha,
HUH ?
Is Access not organised?
Is it not a group of people( disabled, loved ones disabled or just great people) ?
Have reservations about the effectiveness of existing groups/organisations?No better place to voice the changes desired.
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Access: Defective, deficient, deviant…, in reply to Angela Hart,
When abuse happens and is reported to the agency and then to the govt, the actions are not of acknowledgment, the agents wrongdoing is sanctioned and supported by attempted coverups and excuses. I am not saying the individual abusers heads should roll. I am asking that they are taught right from wrong by example of their supervisors, that they learn that harming others is wrong.
For how can they learn compassion and kindness unless our health system stops worshipping a funding model, stops making up outcomes and starts remembering what the word healthCARE means .
We have a healthcare system that was designed not to point the finger or punish but to learn, this freedom allowed those in positions of power to correct but the corrections are not happening (and the life costing "mistakes" are purposeful) . The philosophy in these state org's has become one of saving money =death is cheaper than life.
What happened to HDC patient rights, I was told by the HDC in a colorful way that they do not apply if you are disabled, we can see there is a disproportionate number of "incidents" with vulnerable patients . -
Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to Angela Hart,
You can make demands now, what are your demands? You and everyone here is part of an organized disability group.
I think the disclosures of the injustices need to be made public and that is what can be done here and now i. Facts must be acknowledged by the govt. What we have found by talking is that there is a conflict of interest in the reporting of the govt's obligations. The "How disabled people are treated in NZ by the state "report card should be F and they remove our input( use agents they fund) and give themselves an A.
Clearly there is not the representation or advocacy needed (and what is in place is afraid of the govt stopping its funding ) .
I feel the problem is top down ideas. Most of the public think everything is hunky dory and they don't think of disenfranchised others. The issue of peoples fear of the unknown can be addressed.If you want to talk about political parties,"those who create the problems cannot be expected to solve them" all of them ( the govt & state) are currently are legally bound by the UN CRPWD .
I read an HDC report on the CCDHB not feeding a disabled woman they starved her and she died ( she worked in advocacy) the HDC claimed the nurses just did not know how to feed a person??!! These stories should to come into the light for the facts to be seen, the agencies dysfunction and breaches of the UN CRPWD exposed.
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Hi Chelle
What do you think about posting an "Ask me anything" thread on Access?
If people are uncomfortable getting asked ANY questions, then you could pick questions to share e.g how people get past obstacles( what the biggest ones are for them), what they need or would like changed, what they are passionate about etc. I know we all live in our own mind made worlds, each one unique, but we all share in existence. -
Absolutely they differ and that is OK.
My values are not a socially constructed.
I would not survive a day adopting the socially constructed ideas/values regarding my life or disabilities.The realization of who you are (or Socrates "know thyself") is key to leading a sane, creative and happy life.
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There is no delicate balance between words & disability.
Isn't talking freely about issues more important than people being afraid they will offend ?
If someone uses a term one doesn't like( is offensive) politely correct them and explain - if they are being rude remove them. -
We already overvalue words, people will always be offended as the associations to words are different person to person. Some people have different meanings for the same word. The "blind leading the blind" means to me a person without vision leading people without vision( vision does not mean sight to me as it does to you -unless vision is used with the word eye).
I agree the media is guilty of creating many horrible ideas/memes. Todays attack was again on the mentally ill repeating "aggressive " to instal the word in your mind as an association (strangely enough he committed no act of aggression while free and just wanted to escape the institution). Everyday this mind conditioning goes on if you are not aware of it. -
Then why did you fwd the importance of words to me?
I never said that as I agree no experiences are the same.The only realisation of value is of who you are.
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to Sacha,
Yet there was nothing in the words or the idea of humanity being one to be offended by, your misunderstanding made you think other disabled people( in this case blind) would be offended by the idea of non disabled people experiencing momentary blindness. You said they could not as the thought "I can open my eyes" would happen but that only happens after the sensory input is lost.
If now were not offended why link to a story on the importance of words?
I am only replying because I have found some people when asked what things made them uncomfortable one was about "offending" disable people. So this type of inflating the fear of offense will not serve anyone.
Maybe you should not worry so much about offending.
Since you support Jono's idea of segregation and separation of disabilities into using only "PC" terms list them for all the disabled and non disabled people .
On this blog what words can people use or do you want to keep people afraid of offending? -
He does not like the idea of putting back the person before the disability. He said one must be careful not to offend disabled people and to do this by naming specifically each disability you are referring to(like the Maori - self identified and separated by a past ideas of ethnicity and ancestors) .
I'm out . Again sorry I offended you.Good luck, best wishes and love to you all.
Words are only pointers and will always be a source of misunderstanding .