In memory of Kelly
When someone passes away, it’s important to acknowledge and remember how they have impacted on our lives. This month we have experienced the loss of a former DPSN colleague, Kelly Griffin.
The power of labels — is it time to move on?
A while ago I posted a meme, which said, “Better to have lost in love than to live with a psycho for the rest of your life.”
I liked it of course, otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it. Eleven others did too, some commenting on Facebook, “Amen to that,” and “Definitely!!”
Then this: “Hate it. It’s beat up on people with mental illness time again. Ever had the amazing person you love tell you that they just can’t deal with your mental illness anymore? Our society is totally phobic about people with mental illness having intimate relationships.”
DPSN Vlog: Language
This week’s vlog is about AAC, as part of DPSN’s Language theme for the month. We chat with Gabby who talks about the importance of AAC, and what it means for her. Apologies for the poor sound quality, I had a bit of trouble with it when recording. You can read more from Gabby at…
“Mind your language!”
“Mind your language!”
That was what parents used to tell their kids to warn them not to swear. In the last 20 or 30 years however, some people in the disabled community seem to have taken that saying even more seriously than ever before.
“Disabled”, “handicapped”, “special needs”, “differently abled”, ” handicapable”. All these words and phrases have been used over the years to describe those of us whose physical abilities differ from most people’s. Then there’s the very long-winded “people first” language, as in “person with a disability” or “person with special needs” and so on.
Millennials – the lazy generation or victims of circumstance?
There’s an interesting trend that’s been going on for a while now in the media, in regards to the language that’s used to describe a group of people called millennials.
When I went looking for who exactly counts as a millennial I found that there are no precise dates that define them. Wikipedia says, “researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years…generally the children of baby boomers.”
So, youngish people who range from their late teens to their mid 30s. I guess that makes me one (being a child of the mid-80s myself).
