Comments on: If we were real people. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/if-we-were-real-people/ Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Happiness, Part 2: In which reality is twisted « Urocyon's Meanderings https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/if-we-were-real-people/#comment-22264 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:48:03 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=615#comment-22264 […] Again, I’ll point to Amanda’s short and sweet If we were real people. […]

]]> By: If we were real people « Our life with MPD/DID https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/if-we-were-real-people/#comment-22263 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:15:19 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=615#comment-22263 […] If we were real people I just want to riff off this article for a bit … go read it first, it’s short: If we were real people […]

]]> By: Tysyacha https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/if-we-were-real-people/#comment-22262 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:30:23 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=615#comment-22262 Also, if we were real people, other people wouldn’t see us as easy targets for bullying (either direct or subtle). This poem struck a thousand chords with me, and I am grateful beyond words that you wrote it, Amanda. I’m trying to work to change the culture of schools in my state so that more students would view us AS real people and classmates instead of just the “R-word” or “handicapped/disabled”. Here’s an overview of what my team and I are attempting:

WANT TO HELP STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
BE TREATED WITH MORE RESPECT?

NOW is the time to act!!!

Students with disabilities get teased and bullied more often than other people in school. Sometimes they drop out because they aren’t being treated fairly. That’s not refreshing news! If we, along with students, “Refresh Our Outlook”, schools all over the U.S. will change!

Please join us in our plans via a grant from Pepsi Refresh® to engage Illinois students with disabilities in anti-bullying programs. Once we receive an official link to our “Refresh our Outlook” project on the Pepsi Refresh® website, we will ask you to VOTE and VOTE OFTEN!

What you can do NOW:

1. Go to http://www.refresheverything.com.
2. Click on the “Join Refresh Everything”
link in the bottom left-hand corner.
3. Complete the “Sign Up” form.

What to do on April 1st and every day in April:

1. Go to http://www.refresheverything.com
and sign in.
2. Insert this link for the URL: http://www.RefreshEverything.com/refreshouroutlook
3. VOTE for this project, and let your voice
be heard!

For more information, please contact Amy Walker or Shirley Paceley at (217) 875-1910 or awalker@maconresources.org or spaceley@maconresources.org.

Again, thank you for the poem x 1,000,000,000. Sometimes I feel like you’re the only person in the world that really understands what I’m going through, especially with the “weird issues”, sensory and otherwise, I have from time to time.

]]>