Richard Dawkins: bigoted against those with Down's syndrome?

[freshwest]

62. You are wrong in all that you say about me.

I don't advocate for care unless asked. I too am disabled. So is my child. So are my friends.

Yet you say this man is unique and say I only see his disability. That is utterly wrong. To me he is an example of the physical side of disability but not mental, which is what Dawkins attacked.

The people I know are both or either mentally or physically 'not able' as some say. I don't get into the ideology of it. I say Hawkin is no more unique or deserving of respect than me, my child, my friends.

All persons live on the continiuum of what is considered able and disabled. I don't hold any one above the other.

I am specifically against those who see those like me and my child and others like us as a 'cause' because they forget our humanity in the process. And they are never there when the effects of their rhetoric harms us, causes government to try to herd us or RWers trying to tell us we are a burden, or religionists telling us that we have not tried enough or judging us for what they don't know and are not going to be held responsible for that harms us in many ways.

I am unwilling to let arrogant people consign me and those I care for and those who are like us to lives where we are victimized by entities who don't see us as worthwhile human beings. They sail off and never look at the mess they have made with their grand ideologies.

I know people who have died when their care was denied by cookie cutter approaches and the one size fits all. We are all unique and have to use all our talents to survive.

We are not so far apart REP but I tend to not reveal my own life for the gibbering masses to mock anywhere. Because they do not understand what we are going through.