The Debilitating "D" Word

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Re: Labels

From: Grant Meredith
Date: 20 Oct 2010
Time: 20:24:17 -0500
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Hello and thanks Nyla, I think, personally, by taking ownership of the word and I am not scared to apply it to myself then I am actually helping to positively define in the community. If you look at “disability” from an educated view then it is really something to embrace when required. Perhaps you are right about the labelling and perhaps a majority of respondents had already labelled themselves as stutterers and did not associate with disability or perhaps did not want to wear another label? Hmm interesting. It is very interesting for me how some respondents grouped themselves very strongly against a cohort that they considered “disabled”. I am hoping to understand all these issues in more time as it is so complicated!


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