For the last week or so I’ve been watching my friends on Facebook put some variation of the following as their status:
MY wish for 2010 is that people will understand that children with disabilities do not have a disease; children with disabilities are not looking for a cure, but ACCEPTANCE……..93% of people won’t copy and paste this, WILL YOU be one of the 7% that does and make this your status for at least an hour! They do not want to be “fixed” they want to participate in the world to the best of THEIR ability!
As the parent of a special needs child I will admit that it bothered me a bit, but as I usually ignore these cut & paste statements, I let it go and didn’t think much more of it. The wife however had a different, deeper view, and after reading her latest post, I thought, “Wow! This [her post] can be applied across the board! To our every day lives in general. To a country that seems to have lost it’s ability to have a political conversation where we talk TO each other and not AT each other.” Think before you speak. Look before you leap. Please take a moment to click over and take a read. It’s not about running, but there are, believe it or not, other things: diary of a mom
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Well put.