Here we will begin to describe & rough out some of the "stories" that we want to share-- the stories that someone really needs to tell. For example:
In the "Sometimes, they just don't get it Department" >School District proposes to transport Downs Syndrome student to school in the mail truck, to eliminate need for her to travel on regular school bus with peers.
In the PWD/nos >Josephine Zraik had no physical limitations, fit and intellectually sharp, yet was devestated by "disability" throughout her life. First, when her youngest daughter, Christine, was removed over protest from her home and family by "the state" and sent to "Orient", an institution for the severely imparied. Josephine often spoke about the day a county worker finalized the placement for Christine and cautioned her mother not to think of Christine "as your daughter anymore".
>Subsequent stories about Christine are much more upbeat. One is about a trip to Columbus to buy her shoes, when she refused to try on anything but red shoes in the most expensive department store in town. Which, naturally, her mother gave in and purchased for her.
>The second "disability" wave hit Josephine when her adult son was blinded in a workplace accident. After breaking the news to Josephine, the doctor then designated her as the one to tell her son he would never see again. >>
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