Tweeting disability: a birthday, disabled jokes, noisy walking
|16:15 UK time, Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Four twitter users get straight to the heart of disability life, 140 little characters at a time.
Too many comics use disablist insults without thinking twice, when they wouldn't use racist or sexist ones. Worth thinking about.
Richard Herring @Herring1967
Happy Birthday #NHS - without you I'd be dead from childhood infections, or now wouldn't have the treatments I need for #MS and other things
Margo Milne, @MargoJMilne, commenting on the fact that the National Health Service is 63 years old today.
Most thrilling find so far archiving old tapes, trial of audio describe porn from 2000
Sunil Peck, @sunilpeck, blind journalist.
Late for one of my bestfriends wedding watching from outside :) cause I walk way too loud to sneak in.
Maysoon Zayid, @maysoonzayid, US comedian with cerebral palsy
Comment number 1.
At 06:31 12th Jul 2011, SuperhumanDiva wrote:No, they don't.
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