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Originally Posted by the truth

My nephew has polio , the amount he has to put up with is just unbelievable

1) the physical pain. its huge and it varies all the time
2) the medication. he just wants to play but hes got to be a scientist too
3) the inability to do so many things he wants to do
4) the struggle to keep up with school work, friends, ambitions, peer pressure
5) simple things like access to buildings, toilets etc
6) endless over-priced disabled goods and products
7) the abuse he gets , some treat him well, some patronize, but as we see with jack carroll once a disabled person tries to do anything , they get hammered

I think disabled issues have been buried behind other hot topic issues like fox hunting, gay marriage, endless trivial feminist issues like men calling them dear and such nonsense.....I do compare because these other minority discrimination issues seem to get infinitely more coverage than disabled issues

now we see millions hammered by the tory government.

Its time the government actually re-focused on disabled issues.....we will all one day suffer a disability. its time we really addressed it properly and prioritised it ahead of these other less urgent less complex issues

anyways back to jack , I thought he was terrific

Hear, hear.
And hopefully without sounding insensitive, you'd think David Cameron would be a little more understanding of the whole situation considering what he went through with his son. But compassion is something they seem to struggle with. The Thatcher mindset still seems to prevail in many areas.

But what irritated me more, and I had to stop reading DS because of it, was almost the presumption that Jack either had to be disabled or a comedian. Because he was disabled he was immediately only liked "because people felt sorry for him". God forbid a disabled person is actually complimented for having a talent.