Arts & Culture

Posted on: Sun, Jun 22 2008 2:03 AM

Posted by: Becky Posts: 1,555

Liesl:

Becky:

Thanks Liesl for posting the link. I finally got to watch it. I was really impressed by Ray's attitude. I hope some ABs wake up about what it's like to be in a wheelchair. Did you notice the guys staring when they were in the restaurant. It always amazes me how people can stare like that and not feel ashamed about it. Like they've never seen someone in a wheelchair before.

 

Becky

 

Oooooooh yeah. I have to admit, people were basically pretty nice to me when I had to use a chair, but I think the scenes with the people in restaurants were in the suburbs. He actually lives in a town outside of Dallas that isn't known for its diversity and probably doesn't have one wheelchair user.  

Have to disagree. There is almost nothing more remote than the UP. I didn't even see my first black person, in person, until I was 12 years old. If I see people in wheelchairs up here, they must see them too. The entire population of the UP in the 2000 census was 320,000. My county has only 64,000 people, my town about 8,000. Dallas proper had over 1,118,000 people in 2000, with how many suburbs? The people in the suburbs must go to the city once in a while, where they are bound to come across a person in a wheelchair, I would think.

Becky

Posted on: Sun, Jun 22 2008 2:28 PM

Posted by: Lieslmcq Posts: 2,303

Becky:

Dallas may be anomalous because I rarely see people in wheelchairs. I see them on my campus far more than anywhere else, and never in restuarants or the malls. Dallas is also a place that is hyper focused on looks, so that may be part of it. People may simply feel too intimidated to be out amongst the shallow in Dallas. 

Posted on: Sun, Jun 22 2008 2:35 PM

Posted by: Becky Posts: 1,555

Ahh, okay. I see. It's probably because I am so hypersensitive to staring. Not when people stare at me so much, cause I can take that most of the time. It's when I see other people staring at others because of their differences. If they stare at me, I either stare back or just ignore it. Most of the time that is, there are some days when I am sooo conscious of people staring and hate it.

Becky

Posted on: Mon, Jun 30 2008 10:29 PM

Posted by: Debbie Posts: 3,878

 hi liesl, i just watched the episode and i liked it. thanks to ray for doing what he did. 

Posted on: Sat, Jul 26 2008 7:49 PM

Posted by: BMWgirl Posts: 236

Just fouud this thread:

30 days is one of my fav's show. They did a pretty decent job on the topic. I wished they had interviewed a stem cell advocate to bring that issue to the masses! Also they could have talked about the high rates of unemployment among quads. Like that guy on the show who was 15 yrs post and still living with mom. I would have rather them made the masses see how hard it is to suppoort yourself for us, rather then oh that's cool they can still play sports. (I do not care about being able to play spaorts)

I doubt they made Ray crocket Cath and not to my suprise they did not go into into that aspect of SCI.

They made SCI seem like I thought it was when I was a kid, you just cannot move. I didn't relize that there were other aspects of it. Such as pressure sores that can be dangerous or not being able to regulate your body temp, BB and sexual issues.

It would be really a lot harder simulate having CP for 30 days..I don't know how I'd design that to give someone an accurate idea of it.

Not saying CP is worse than SCI-just harder to simulate.

The above noted-they still did a pretty good job; I had no problems with it and anything to due with gimpdom, I  am  hard on.

Posted on: Sat, Jul 26 2008 8:22 PM

Posted by: Lynn Posts: 1,035

I've done sensitivity siminars where we put ab in wc or blindfold, in heavy gloves or tie a limb up to similate an amputation.  This only gives the person a taste of the real thing, but sometimes its enough to bring change.  In my city the mayor participated and was in a wc and  sent to the post office for stamps only to find no curb cut to the post office which was handicap accesible.  Within two weeks curb cuts were installed on that city block.  People don't think.  The same thing happened at the high school.  Handicap parking but no curb cuts to get to the building.  SE Kansas is very pro active and ADA friendly but we have to be aggressive in promoting change because no one can see things the same as someone who lives the disability  30 minutes isn't long enough but its a start.