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https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2010/01/assisted-suicide-legal-in-montana.html?showComment=1262365683330 Bad Cripple: Assisted Suicide: Legal In Montana For months I have been expecting the Montana Supreme Court to make assisted suicide legal. On Thursday December 31, this became reality. Mon... bad crippleassisted suicidelegalmontana https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2008/10/solid-victory-for-obama-on-disability.html?showComment=1224601860000 Bad Cripple: A Solid Victory for Obama on Disability I did not get to see the entire Presidential debate last night because I was teaching. However, I did listen to most of the debate on my dri... bad cripplesolidvictoryobamadisability https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2016/04/ableism-and-organ-donation-deadly.html Bad Cripple: Ableism and Organ Donation: A Deadly Combination In 1996 Californian Sandra Jensen, age 34, received a heart lung transplant. Jensen had Down Syndrome and was originally informed that heart... bad crippleorgan donationableismdeadlycombination https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2010/05/academic-conferences-who-can-afford-to.html?showComment=1274881756265 Bad Cripple: Academic Conferences: Who Can Afford to Attend For the next week I am on an austerity budget and many pasta meals are will be on the menu. I am good at budgeting my expenses. I rarely spl... bad crippleacademic conferencesaffordattend https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2016/09/letter-to-young-cripples.html Bad Cripple: Letter to Young Cripples Use mass transportation. The fight to insure mass transportation systems were wheelchair accessible was long, arduous and heated. The opposi... bad crippleletteryoung https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2012/04/small-but-important-change.html?showComment=1338292243050 Bad Cripple: A Small but Important Change This morning I was reading A Girl with a Cane, a blog I like very much. 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I received a remarkable number ... bad cripplethank https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2009/03/choices-for-people-with-disability.html?showComment=1236734040000 Bad Cripple: Choices for People with a Disability Imagine that you are a 25 year old man: you are single, college educated, and have just started your career. You have an active dating life ... bad cripplefor peoplechoicesdisability https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2012/06/choosing-to-die-has-ramifications.html?showComment=1340583338074 Bad Cripple: Choosing to Die has Ramifications Last night I read an editorial in the Spokesman-Review by Curtis Johnson. Mr. Johnson has ALS and it is rapidly progressing. 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Multiple stories have appeared in various mainstream news outlets... bad cripplealaska airlinesblatantdiscrimination https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2014/10/i-did-not-say-it-but-i-did-think-it.html?showComment=1414413495704 Bad Cripple: I Did Not Say it But I Did Think it. I like to read various feminist websites. The range of views expressed is remarkable as are the topics of discussion. 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The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) invited me to the 2011 Gala in Was... bad crippleaapdobliviousdisability https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2008/10/daniel-james-in-uk-news.html?showComment=1224622020000 Bad Cripple: Daniel James in the UK News The death of Daniel Jones I wrote about yesterday has been officially sent to the Crown Prosecution Service Complex Casework Unit. This spec... in the ukbad crippledaniel jamesnews https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/08/tara-palmeri-on-service-dogs-misleading.html Bad Cripple: Tara Palmeri on Service Dogs: Misleading and Problematic Tara Palmeri is at it again. A second article on service dog abuse appeared in the NY Post today. As with Palmeri's previous article I ... bad crippletara palmerion servicedogsmisleading https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-i-love-writing-at-bad-cripple.html?showComment=1400820557916 Bad Cripple: Why I love Writing at Bad Cripple This blog is a labor of love. 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I was paralyzed at age 18--a few months before I was to attend c... bad crippledisability rightsfailuremovement https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2010/05/ada-procrastination-and-gas-pumps.html?showComment=1273282845868 Bad Cripple: The ADA, Procrastination and Gas Pumps I have a stack of final exams on my desk that must be graded. This is serious work with a firm deadline I always meet. Yet I will do almost ... bad cripplethe adaprocrastinationgaspumps https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/04/nyc-taxi-service-bloomberg-as-bigot.html?showComment=1370629410626 Bad Cripple: NYC Taxi Service: Bloomberg as Bigot New York City taxi service is unique and in many cases reflects the culture of the city itself. 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Another variable is the supposed g... end of the yearbad cripplewearythoughts https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/04/fear-exists-for-good-reason.html?showComment=1365321145977 Bad Cripple: Fear Exists for a Good Reason Over the past week I have followed the story of Amanda Baggs via various neurodiversity blogs. Baggs who I mentioned in my 500th post is an ... bad cripplefearexistsgoodreason https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/10/follow-up-with-delta-and-questions.html?showComment=1383403217820 Bad Cripple: Follow Up With Delta and Questions I had a long talk with an employee from Delta. Profuse apologies were made and accepted. I am very curious though about one thing. 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I know this because I have read the reactions at two sites: Mysteries and Questions Surrounding th... bad crippleand theashleytreatmentparental https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2008/12/piss-on-pity.html?showComment=1270576542841 Bad Cripple: Piss on Pity The Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science board of governors has voted to honor Jerry Lewis with a special Oscar for his humanitarian wo... bad cripplepiss onpity https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2016/02/on-being-divorced.html?showComment=1455820947378 Bad Cripple: On Being Divorced I am 38 years into my post paralysis life. Paralysis is inscribed on my body. Human kind was not meant to be paralyzed. I have the battle sc... bad crippleon beingdivorced https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2015/10/crawling-off-plane.html?showComment=1447362756015 Bad Cripple: Crawling off a Plane By now most people will have heard about D'Arcee Neal, who after a flight from San Francisco to Washington DC, decided to crawl off a plane ... bad cripplecrawlingplane https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2009/11/baby-rb-miserable-sad-and-pitiful.html?showComment=1257696540715 Bad Cripple: Baby RB: A Miserable, Sad and Pitiful Existence? A legal battle is taking place in Britain regarding Baby RB. Doctors caring for a child known only as Baby RB is at the center of a life and... bad cripplebabyrbmiserablesad https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2019/03/traveling-alone-and-tsa.html Bad Cripple: Traveling Alone and the TSA Despite having two wounds, last week I traveled from Denver to San Diego. In traveling, I put myself at significant risk for injury. I could... bad crippletraveling aloneand thetsa https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2010/09/weekends-are-rough.html?showComment=1284927619857 Bad Cripple: Weekends are Rough As many know, hospitals hum along during the week. That action comes to a grinding halt on the weekend. Last night was quiet and today will ... bad crippleweekendsrough https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2008/07/protecting-crippled-people.html Bad Cripple: Protecting Crippled People I just about spit up my lunch when I read a New York Times story about Oscar Pistorius. 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T omorrow I am giving testimony before the Massachusetts Legislature Joint Committee on Public Health in opposition to H 1998 which would le... bad crippleboston maassisted suicideoppositionlegislation https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2009/01/ashley-treatment-symposium.html?showComment=1233468180000 Bad Cripple: Ashley Treatment Symposium Yesterday I read an account of a symposium held in Seattle that dealt with the Ashley Treatment or what doctors like to call growth attenuat... bad crippleashleytreatmentsymposium https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2010/01/assisted-suicide-legal-in-montana.html?showComment=1262450958879 Bad Cripple: Assisted Suicide: Legal In Montana For months I have been expecting the Montana Supreme Court to make assisted suicide legal. On Thursday December 31, this became reality. 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I taught honors students at Syracuse University and gave a series o... bad crippledisabilityblues https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2009/11/anger-helps.html?showComment=1258042356432 Bad Cripple: Anger Helps In the Body Silent Robert Murphy wrote about two types of anger. The first, existential anger, involves a pervasive bitterness at one's fate... bad crippleangerhelps https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2008_09_14_archive.html Bad Cripple: 2008-09-14 Paralyzed since I was 18 years old, I have spent much of the last 30 years thinking about the reasons why the social life of crippled people is so different... bad cripple https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2014/07/presume-competence-and-failure-of.html Bad Cripple: Presume Competence and the Failure of Education When I see a person with an obvious disability I always react the same way: There goes a hard ass who has somehow acquired a disability and ... bad crippleand thepresumecompetencefailure https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-on-susan-boyle.html?showComment=1240270860000 Bad Cripple: More on Susan Boyle Susan Boyle has become an overnight sensation. Over 20 million people have watched her performance on Britain's Got Talent. 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W... ways of knowingbad cripplesyracuse universitydisability https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/04/nyc-taxi-service-bloomberg-as-bigot.html?showComment=1368382108386 Bad Cripple: NYC Taxi Service: Bloomberg as Bigot New York City taxi service is unique and in many cases reflects the culture of the city itself. If you use a wheelchair NYC taxi service is ... bad cripplenyc taxiservicebloombergbigot https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2016/02/on-being-divorced.html?showComment=1455675428251 Bad Cripple: On Being Divorced I am 38 years into my post paralysis life. Paralysis is inscribed on my body. Human kind was not meant to be paralyzed. I have the battle sc... bad crippleon beingdivorced https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2015/10/crawling-off-plane.html?showComment=1447450281656 Bad Cripple: Crawling off a Plane By now most people will have heard about D'Arcee Neal, who after a flight from San Francisco to Washington DC, decided to crawl off a plane ... bad cripplecrawlingplane https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/08/hate-crimes.html?showComment=1377440158950 Bad Cripple: Hate Crimes I will assume most people interested in disability rights have heard about the hateful letter sent to the family of a person with Autism tha... bad cripplehatecrimes https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/04/nyc-taxi-service-bloomberg-as-bigot.html?showComment=1375736107197 Bad Cripple: NYC Taxi Service: Bloomberg as Bigot New York City taxi service is unique and in many cases reflects the culture of the city itself. If you use a wheelchair NYC taxi service is ... bad cripplenyc taxiservicebloombergbigot https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/12/watch-out.html?showComment=1387839036958 Bad Cripple: Watch Out Like many others, I struggle during the holiday season. Holiday cheer often creates a time of great stress, family strife, financial stress,... bad cripplewatch https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-am-not-depressed-but.html Bad Cripple: I am Not Depressed But... I am certainly not happy. To me, this is a perfectly reasonable response to my current predicament. I have been completely independent since... i am notbad crippledepressed https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2012/04/tedmed-abysmal-transportation-at-great.html?showComment=1334780796025 Bad Cripple: TEDMED: Abysmal Transportation at a Great Conference The above photograph of a Washington DC trolly bus was the bane of my existence at the TEDMED conference I attended. The conference it... bad crippletedmedabysmaltransportationgreat https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2013/07/travel-hassles-are-as-needless-one.html?showComment=1379780486309 Bad Cripple: Travel Hassles are as Needless: One Example we Should Follow. I have spent a lot of time on the road this year. I love to travel and I especially love driving. In fact I noticed that my car, purchased f... bad cripple https://badcripple.blogspot.com/2016/02/on-being-divorced.html?showComment=1455543931773 Bad Cripple: On Being Divorced I am 38 years into my post paralysis life. Paralysis is inscribed on my body. Human kind was not meant to be paralyzed. 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