Yesterday’s Star Tribune featured an editorial supporting the UN disability rights convention. It lists several injustices and abuses inflicted upon people with disabilities, including deliberate refrigeration and spiking their food with radioactive isotopes. And while the worst of these horrors have receded into the forgetful recesses of history, we continue to face indignities. For example, a certain blogger’s siblings used to enjoy taking one of his hands and using it to lightly punch his nose while exuberantly saying, “Hey, stop hitting yourself!”
When I become benevolent despot of my island nation, I’m going to establish a gimp-friendly version of The Hague where these offenses and many more will be redressed. All defendants will be tried in absentia until we have the appropriate extradition treaties in place. And I can guarantee fair trials, as I will serve as both judge and jury.
One thing that I’ve recently learned is that my intellectually disabled sister is very lucky is that NONE of her family members is particularly cruel to her. Almost all her intellectually disabled friends suffers some kind of regular abuse (physical, emotional, verbal, sexual) from an immediate family member. What’s particularly disturbing is that my sister is regarded “lucky”.
what about gimp on gimp violence? My brother & I have the same SMA, though he is much weaker. I’m going to pay for all those days I would move his drink away from his mouth and steal his drinking straw…aren’t I…