because we all need a cure...

ARGH! Sitting in the waiting room trying to get pain relief for my broken toe (silly accident details withheld) I came across this ad for "The Cleveland Clinic" which touts implants for brain activity for individuals with Parkinsons disease. Now, granted, it is a devasting disease, but do you really need to pour over how you can not play Cholin anymore? I mean, i began to wonder if this type of technology existed for CP, Then, amoungst the rediculous amounts of stuff that has been in my inbox - maybe we just need cures, because killing kids with autism makes no sense to me, but curing my cp doesnt either. Maybe, I'm the problem, *I* need to be cured. I dont know why I was so infuriated, but dammit, when kids are being killed because their mothers feel that mercury immunizations cause autism, yet people completely disregard the autism community in general, something is wrong.
The complete other side of this debate happened a few hours earlier, while listening to NPR's Joe Shapiro interview a man who has aspergers syndrome and is proud of it. i dunno why those depictions are so few and far between. I guess seeing the ad in a hospital waiting room is just appealing to their target audience...

I dunno...

mr. broken toe - it really freaking hurts!
MJR

Links:

The Autism Hub (a www feed of bloggers who reject cures for autism)

Npr.org (search joe shapiro autism)

Not Dead Yet (for mucho info on the string of murders of kids with disabilities.)

and yeah - the photo is from my cell phone. is this the "new internet?"

uppity disability dot net goes mobile - new laptop. Publishing Empire Coming Soon...

...well, Empire may be stretching it.

But a wonderful friend gave me her old laptop, it is running an ancient copy of win 95 (an yes, i AM running firefox on it...) A fresh OS, (yep, linux does run...) a couple pcmcia cards...and a usb wireless hub, and Well, we'll be doing the wifi media server. Give me a week or two. And a new head of hair because upgrading computers sucks. But no - it is really insane how cheap this can all be done, well under a hundred dollars... I hope to to explain the joys of diy media creation at a few events in the future, notably the Maine Social Forum and some sort of event in NYC in September. *I* even think i can upload video with the laptop. We will see. Tons more interesting stuff to post, like my review of 'Letters to Sam",some stuff about ssome local activist stuff and maybe a new design

Mike R.