Since my blog has a very narrow focus, I felt it was important to provide my community with links to blogs about other disability topics.
My goal was to find links to blogs about specific physical disabilities, but I came across a bit of everything.
I plan to add to the list throughout the semester as I come across others, but for now I have found the following:
1)Coral and Opal-- This is a blog about various disabilities. It focuses on new technologies made to assist those with disabilities and tells disabled people's stories.
2) Disability is an Art-- Written by the Director of Disability Services at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, this blog contains some great information for college students. It also analyzes how having a disability can be an art and a blessing.
3) Down the MS Path--Written by a woman with Multiple Sclerosis , this blog contains information for all types of people that may be affected by MS or know someone who is.
Again, I will be adding to the list as the semester continues, but feel free to leave other blog suggestions!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Does Physical Disability Affect Relationships?
Along with your education, your social life becomes a high priority when you enter college. Having a physical disability may hinder your confidence in yourself and/or social interaction/dating. Within the American culture, physically disabled people are widely accepted among their communities, and disabled advocacy is more prevalent than ever before, but not all countries are as accepting.
In Nigeria and other African countries, physically disabled people are discriminated against and often even segregated in their communities. Upon doing research for my "Dating with a Disability" post, that I will be doing in the near future, I found this article in Vanguard, a newspaper that has a basis in Nigeria.
The article entitled "Physical Disability, a barrier to true love?", is a great prequel post to my "Dating with a Disability" post. Because Nigerian people often view physically disabled people as "having a disease", it is hard to believe (for Nigerian people) that people with disabilities can even have a relationship.
The points brought up in the article seem outlandish to me on a personal level, but I felt I needed to share this with my readers and get their feedback.
Basically the writer, Bridget Amaraegbu is talking to celebrities and upper class people about their views on the physically disabled. The view of the majority is that physically disabled people often use their disability as an excuse to be lazy, allowing them not to have careers, thus making them less appealing to the opposite sex.
These celebrities and upper class individuals in the article actually advocated for physically disabled saying that more and more are becoming actors and actresses, writers and celebrities alike. The only reason they would like them though is because they were making lots of money.
I did appreciate one source who was in love with a physically disabled person at one time and was willing to do anything to help her, but the overall view is that the physically disabled cannot have a relationship because they are incapable of holding jobs and making decent money.
I felt the article was extremely bias and the people in it were materialistic and money driven. Maybe I find it such an extraordinarily negative article because I have never encountered such a negative view of the physically disabled and relationships.
What does everyone else think?
Has anyone ever encountered relationship problems because of your disability?
Or has the American public viewed you as incapable of having a relationship because of your disability?
In Nigeria and other African countries, physically disabled people are discriminated against and often even segregated in their communities. Upon doing research for my "Dating with a Disability" post, that I will be doing in the near future, I found this article in Vanguard, a newspaper that has a basis in Nigeria.
The article entitled "Physical Disability, a barrier to true love?", is a great prequel post to my "Dating with a Disability" post. Because Nigerian people often view physically disabled people as "having a disease", it is hard to believe (for Nigerian people) that people with disabilities can even have a relationship.
The points brought up in the article seem outlandish to me on a personal level, but I felt I needed to share this with my readers and get their feedback.
Basically the writer, Bridget Amaraegbu is talking to celebrities and upper class people about their views on the physically disabled. The view of the majority is that physically disabled people often use their disability as an excuse to be lazy, allowing them not to have careers, thus making them less appealing to the opposite sex.
These celebrities and upper class individuals in the article actually advocated for physically disabled saying that more and more are becoming actors and actresses, writers and celebrities alike. The only reason they would like them though is because they were making lots of money.
I did appreciate one source who was in love with a physically disabled person at one time and was willing to do anything to help her, but the overall view is that the physically disabled cannot have a relationship because they are incapable of holding jobs and making decent money.
I felt the article was extremely bias and the people in it were materialistic and money driven. Maybe I find it such an extraordinarily negative article because I have never encountered such a negative view of the physically disabled and relationships.
What does everyone else think?
Has anyone ever encountered relationship problems because of your disability?
Or has the American public viewed you as incapable of having a relationship because of your disability?
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