Wyrm episode 11: 18/5/01 MY LEFT FOOT - YOUR ASS. ------------------------- Light some insense and beat the bongo drums, Im a funky beatnik and you are my victim. They have wheelchairs, artifical limbs, glass eyes, nervous ticks, we call them The Disabled, the cripples, the spasmo's. Shame on us. Theres way too much stigman attached to the disabled people in this world. Laugh at the misfortune of others will you? Karma might just decie to remove one of your legs lets See how you like it. Fear my voodo magicks. I feel serious, someone bite me. The last thing the disabled want is pity. Dont suck-up, dont give special treatment, just be accepting and help when its needed. I dont pretend to know what it's like, ive been blessed with a fully funcational body and a very co-ordinated one at that. But I do love the attitude ive picked up from some disabled people ive meet. Like this guy i know, he was in a major car acciendt and they had to amputate his leg. Many people involved in car accidnets die so he recokns Whats the loss of one leg compared to death?. He's thankfull everday that he's alive. Before the acicdent he was a sour little bastard, and went around trying to be a jerk to everyone. In a funnny way the accient was proboly the best thing that ever happend to him. He enjoys life now, and has devoted friends a careear and a loving wife ,Its such a shame it takes a major crisis to spark these turnarounds. Another point to consider is, People who were born with physical/mental differances (lets not call them defects) were born, they have been given a chance to exist. Some dont even get that. You might think that the disabled are a morbid bunch, sitting aorund with their moribd thaughts on life and how unfair everything is. You'd be surpiresd, most disabled people are in fact very cool, happy people. until certain dickheads decide to mock them. Most disabled people dont mind you looking at them, their used to it - it is after all human nature to be intrqguied by people who are in wheelchairs or missing limbs. Its the snikering or laughter or mean comments that they get pissed off about, or the idea that they need to be helped with every little thing. Dont patronise and dont be a sycophant. I used to know a deaf guy, he was prolly one of the friendliest and most intellgient people i have ever met. Problem was people istantly judged him as being mentally retardted simply cause he was hard to understand and used gestures exxcvibly. This guy was a virtual rocket scientist but no-body would ever give him a chance. Predjudice, Wrote a song about it , wanna hear it? , here it goes. Special olympics... I have noticed some of my Mojock companions (male lesiure students) Laughing at disabled athletes and particularly at the special olympics. Its interesting to pull out the statisitcs and show them that many of these 'retards' and 'freaks' are able to run,throw,jump.swim better than they can. Even more interesting is that there are some records held by disabled athletes that able bodied athletes have never beaten. Who's the retard freaks now boys??? :) I pray these Mojocks never end up working with our young people.. I really do. Far too many disabled people are segregated. Even those with minor disabilities that arent even aparant. Hark back to an episode of seinfielfd where jerrys new gf revealed she only had one leg and Jerry couldent handle it. I'd be quite intrigued by it really. It wouldent gross me out. It shoudlent change how you feel and I assume there are many interesting things you could do with a one legged woman ;) We all take for granted this wonderfull gift we have been given. You are alive, you think, you feel. And even though some of you out there are pure evil, nast people are the minority. If star wars has tuahgt me anything its that Good will allways prevail over your darkness. So take a look around and ask yourself who are the real retards, cripples and freaks?.. It might just be you. Milk my cow, mow my lawn, send me some mail for I am the walrus. Yes few jokes this week. But theres a time for laughing and a time for scowling. Wisdom:Free your mind, And the rest will follow. Web: www.geocities.com/thewyrmhole