Top Ten Reasons for the Able to Pay Attention:
This is for the carnival, but also for the able:
In reverse order:
1o. We’re adaptable…if you hung with us long enough, *you* might be too.
9. We can teach you how to handle crutches after that ski incident.
8. Careful…We are too listening.
7. All those “abilities” you have can turn against you if you value yourself *only* by the ease and skill with which you use those abilities…there has to be some intrinsic value of person as person, or, as you, the able grow old, you get far too grumpy and uninteresting retreading what you *can’t* do.
6. If you’ve paid attention to us, and impairment arrives for you, you’ll be ready to assess and accept earlier.
5. Our version of “fun” or “a good” life may be different from yours, and that’s not a bad thing.
4. We aren’t invisible…for one thing…we vote.
3. If the tables were turned…would *you* put up with being unheard?
2. We will learn, each from the other much more easily once you understand we are not sin and we are not inspiration
1. Pity wastes both your time, and ours. Respect is a much more useful use of your emotions.
Ranter said,
August 21, 2007 at 1:01 PM
Amen. Hopefully someday they’ll get it.
Kathryn said,
August 23, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Great top 10 list. I especially like #1 and 2, as a sometimes able bodied person and mom of a disabled child. Amen indeed.
terriblepalsy said,
August 23, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Amen plus 2
rampracer said,
August 23, 2007 at 9:13 PM
Great list. Echo the amen!
Attila the Mom said,
August 23, 2007 at 11:21 PM
1. Pity wastes both your time, and ours. Respect is a much more useful use of your emotions.
AMEN!!
Loved your list!
NTE said,
August 24, 2007 at 3:11 PM
Awesome… This is a fabulous list! Great work.
Kay said,
August 24, 2007 at 4:47 PM
Excellent list!
imfunny2 said,
August 24, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Thanks everybody!
Janette said,
September 12, 2007 at 12:41 AM
It is all great. I especially love number 2