The word always reminds me of a certain woman.
I read her book, she impressed me. She was paralyzed from head to toe.
If you are different or disabled people seem to think you are deaf and stupid as well.
I already had that experience as my cousin and I went out and communicated with hand signs.
Immediately people back off as if you have the plague.
Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer was a quadriplegic and American disability rights activist. She is best known for her autobiography I Raise My Eyes to Say Yes, co-authored with Steven B. Kaplan.
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The title of the Dutch version of her book is Alleen mijn ogen kunnen spreken (only my eyes can speak).
I admire Ruth for what she managed to make out of her life after all the misery that came over her.
No one knew inside her body hid a very intelligent woman. A person with feelings treated worse as an animal.
Did she hope for someone to rescue her?
I think she did not, but that help came. Someone noticed she was there, aware and needed to get out of that terrible place.
As soon as that happened her life started.
It is a book I recommend you to (re)read.
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It is amazing what disabled people can do, their brain power allows them to over their struggles. Its inspiring to see people like Helen Keller, Stephen Hawking, and Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer to take control of their lives.
I recall ( just vaguely, as I do not have good memory retention) a poet in Ireland who wrote poems 'with his left foot'. If I remember correctly, the best poem of all was one he wrote for his mother, who never gave up on him. They were very poor and from the rest of his family, I would say they were a rough group, yet he had an inner world of beauty and sensitivity.