Tweeting disability
|13:44 UK time, Monday, 20 June 2011
Twitter allows anyone with a computer or smartphone to create a snapshot of what they are thinking or experiencing in that moment and put it on the web for all to read. Here are four such Tweets, as sent by disabled people over the weekend.
It's Learning Disability Week. It's hard to know what to do to show support.Not calling anyone "a Retard" is a great place to start. #ldw
Nicky Clark, @dontplaymeplayme, campaigner and mum to two disabled daughters.
I like to say I'm retiring instead of quitting to give myself hope that 1 day, through scientific advances, I'll be able to work again. #EDS
Suzanne M, @MeriLizzie
That new shoe smell.. You like it? Well my shoes smell like that forever! POW!!!* #plasticfeetrule!
Oscar Pistorius, @OscarPistorius, Paralympic sprinter and double amputee.
Lady on tube woke me to ask if I was in Afghanistan. Then proceeded to tell me about dismembered Egyptian kings and astral bodies.
Paul Carter, @juniorc0, a journalist born with no hands or feet.
Comment number 1.
At 20:50 20th Jun 2011, sam wrote:Hi
Can anyone recommend a modeling agency that would be interested in my daughter who is visually impaired?
Many thanks in advance
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Comment number 2.
At 09:45 21st Jun 2011, KizzyKazaer wrote:Is this blog intended to 'sell' Twitter to message boarders as a credible alternative to the Ouch! board? If so, it's not very convincing.
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Comment number 3.
At 14:04 21st Jun 2011, hossylass wrote:Thats nice.
I really dont think I care too much about gossip, or Oscars feet smell (or lack of), as for the "r" word, well ouchers use the phrase "r" word so that we dont get random perverted muck racking googlers.
Want some boring crap?
I just made a cup if tea, and spilled hot water all over myself!
Hardly breaking news, is it?
Maybe Ouchers just function on a higher intellectual plane than twitterers.
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Comment number 4.
At 18:54 21st Jun 2011, mistynow wrote:What is that rubbish posted as a blog ?
If that is examples of twitter speak then forget it, hardly interesting debates or information is it ?
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At 23:39 21st Jun 2011, Ironic John wrote:Diabolical load of nonsense as I have ever had the misfortune to read.
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Comment number 6.
At 16:40 22nd Jun 2011, Chris_Page wrote:What have you done with the Ouch site? Where's the messageboards???
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Comment number 7.
At 22:31 27th Jun 2011, ProfessionalCripple wrote:Asked the BBC for a copy of the "Equality Impact Assessment" & the "Public Value Test" for Ouch Message Board Closure. That said read this https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/06/messageboard_closure.html
Right Questions - Wrong Answer BBC!
It seems that BBC News ain't very good at getting to the source material!
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Comment number 8.
At 11:14 11th Apr 2012, john_davies45 wrote:The examples in this blog aren’t good, but there’s a few websites that tweet about disability & products on the market. DisabledGo are regularly active & I've found them useful. I used them to find out about Mobility Plus Comfort & I recently purchased my father a new adjustable bed.
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