Howlings » attitude http://howlings.com Wild Woman of the Web Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:57:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Poems, Prayers, Prosthetics; An Adventure http://howlings.com/2009/08/poems-prayers-prosthetics-an-adventure/ http://howlings.com/2009/08/poems-prayers-prosthetics-an-adventure/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:44:52 +0000 cale http://howlings.com/?p=215 “Not many people have the misfortune, or privilege, however you feel about it, to own and operate an artificial appendage. But those of us who do, through design or default, are privy to a few “different” experiences in life that can sometimes fall into the category of humorous. Or to the more pristine soul, morbidly

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]]> http://howlings.com/2009/08/poems-prayers-prosthetics-an-adventure/feed/ 0 Puppets Raise Kids’ Consciousness of Disabilities http://howlings.com/2009/08/puppets-raise-kids-consciousness-of-disabilities/ http://howlings.com/2009/08/puppets-raise-kids-consciousness-of-disabilities/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:36:30 +0000 cale http://howlings.com/?p=209 Puppets Raise Kids’ Consciousness of Disabilities Regional Mobility Magazine December, 1985

“For a one-woman operation, Paula Johnson shares her office with a lot of people. They’re lined up in the corner of her cubicle in Aylesworth Hall, Colorado State University, like a softball team posing for a championship picture.”

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“‘Disability is an obstacle illusion.’ Catchy phrase. With this phrase, Rose Kreston hoped the students at Colroado State University would catch Handicapped Awareness Days’ message that it is often the able-bodied community’s perceptions of disability which impede disabled people in their attempts to become an acceptable part of society.

Rose

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“We all joke around about relative levels of disability. Above-the-knee amputees (ak’s) will joke around about below-the-knee amputees: “B-ks are almost human.” But let’s face it. Sometimes even a b-k feels like a real gimp.

I once met a freestyle skier who had blown her knee out the previous season and

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“Last month I made a distinction between the person with an athletic injury and the “real gimp’ This month’s column is a commentary on the rarest breed of gimp, the supergimp.

In case you’re not familiar with the term, gimps are humans possessing an abnormal walking style, commonly described as a

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