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[green_queen]

1. There is something deeply flawed about a class where the teacher expects you to find and photocopy your own readings every week and then puts them on 2 day loan so they're never in. Then she actually hands out assignments for people to SUMMARISE them in class so we know what they're about and whether we can use them anyway - and gets mad at us when we don't do the readings.

Am I just spoilt or something?

2. I hate calling mentally or physically disabled kids 'special'. Special just means weird or different, it doesn't mean special. Tell me what they've got, because once you know the specifics you can see past them to the person. Otherwise they're always special, which makes them always 'other.'

3. I was so disappointed when the guy in my gender studies class who looks like Javi said he had a girlfriend. The hot guy in the Strokes T-Shirt who calls me Grace is available, though.

Green Queen

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[corellianjedi.livejournal.com]

I hate calling mentally or physically disabled kids 'special'. Special just means weird or different, it doesn't mean special. Tell me what they've got, because once you know the specifics you can see past them to the person. Otherwise they're always special, which makes them always 'other.'

As someone who coached Special Olympics basketball for four years, I feel the need to shout "AMEN!" to that.

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

I understand what you're saying... but what word(s) would you use?

[girl-is-modern.livejournal.com]

I've got a professor who does the same thing. He also cancels class randomly, but doesn't tell anyone, he just writes on the chalkboard, "TODAY? NO CLASS." It's my first class of the day, and on the complete opposite side of campus, and it pisses me off when I get there, and that's what I see. Hey buddy! There's this new thing called E-MAIL. Use it, mmkay?


(Strokes shirt? I'd hit that.)

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Well, I use disabled in general, but I prefer to say specifically what's wrong with them if I know. I tell people Luke has autism and if they don't understand I explain what it means.

I just tend to find the word 'special' really demeaning and stupid. I also find that people quantify it - 'very special' or 'a little bit special' depending on the severity of the person's disability. I don't like it when people mince words, and I find that if people have a name for what's wrong with these kids and know the details they're much more relaxed and understanding.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you agree. I just find that 'special' is much more stigmatising than labelling the disability the person has, because if people know the details they know how to deal with the problem and then they are more free to see the person behind it, you know?

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I actually go to uni specifically for class so that would piss me off too.

Mmm, the boy is hot.