Feedback | 28 June 2003

Comment on Crippling burden by Rod Liddle (21/06/2003)

Your tawdry article on those of us who are disabled adequately shows us that you are indeed genuinely disabled – by blindness to the facts, arrogance, facetiousness and selective deafness amongst others. You chastise us for almost daring to claim what is the birthright of every citizen: to be judged on what can do, rather than what we cannot. Do you want us to remain objects of pity when we could be taking a full part in society? Is it only for the non-disabled “elite” to claim life’s rich pickings? It isn’t as if we want anything special – just the means to be able to compete on equal terms. Is our money disabled, too? Is it not of sufficient value that premises shouldn’t install ramps etc – all with Government money, I might add? I challenge you to live in a wheelchair for a week, going about your daily business, and see how you cope with not only physical, but attitudinal barriers to your participation in mainstream society.