The Deal with Disability is the newest disability-themed blog to arrive on the scene and it deserves a spot on your RSS subscription list. Its author, Eva, is 26 and has cerebral palsy. More importantly, Eva has a talent for writing insightful, funny posts about her encounters with everyday people. Some of her entries include video of these interactions courtesy of the discretely mounted camera on her wheelchair. Eva is nonverbal and her videos illustrate the discomfort and awkwardness that most people exhibit when they encounter someone with a significant disability. Eva seems to take it everything in stride and I look forward to reading more of her observations.
Eva’s blog has already been featured on MetaFilter, so I expect that she’ll be signing a book deal before long. As an aside, the comments thread on MeFi regarding her blog is one of the more enlightened on-line discussions of disability I’ve seen in a while.
I’ve read some entries of Eva’s blog, but unlike yours, they make me sad.
The film “Moments” you drew our attention to yesterday, is like pure gold to me.
Mreover, the short text you wrote t introduce it, is certainly one of my favourites up to now.