Period When Sterilizations Occurred
Sterilizations in Michigan occurred from 1914 through 1963 (Paul, p. 382). The vast majority of them occurred after the Michigan passed its last sterilization law in 1929.
There is an old "joke" about PWD working at institutions that gets at the same issue-I won't repeat it here.....
I was born with cerebral palsy. And ever since the age of thirteen, I’ve spent significant amounts of time with other people with physical disabilities.
And while we all may have different impairments, there are many experiences that are universal among those of us with physical disabilities – and particularly very visible disabilities.
And the most common complaint I hear among my fellow physically disabled peers is a variation on statements like, “We’re not ret*rded. Our minds are fine. It’s our legs that don’t work.”
Some even go so far as to complain about having to share services and transportation (like paratransit, which is door-to-door transportation for people with disabilities) with people who have cognitive or intellectual disabilities.
And what I’ve come to realize is that the truth is that, whether they want to admit it or not, a lot of physically disabled people say these things because they’re afraid. They see cognitively disabled people as different from themselves, and they don’t understand that difference. And that difference breeds misunderstanding.
It’s the exact same reason a lot of non-disabled people don’t want to associate with physically disabled people.
It’s the worst type of hypocrisy – transferring the stigma and stereotypes that we hate onto other people. It does nothing to dispel the stigma. Instead, it just transfers them to a different group of people. That’s not the type of person we should be aiming to be.
This twisted game of “pass the stigma” has a lot to do with the way society treats people with disabilities. We’re routinely patronized, discriminated against, and ignored. We’re assumed to have the mental capacity of infants, even if we’re full-grown adults. We’re abused at abominably high rates.
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Fresh look at an old issue. Well done.....
I get asked this question most days, occasionally prefaced with a “if you don’t mind me asking…” or a “no offense, but…”
More often than not, the asker of this question truly means no harm, and would probably be horrified to know the damage caused by their words. People are naturally curious, and etiquette and rudeness aside (it’s not very polite to demand personal information from a stranger) I am always willing to enlighten those who ask. *
However, I do take issue with that question. Not in what it seeks to ask, but the specific choice of words. “What is wrong with you?” To my mind, I’m afraid there is absolutely nothing at all wrong with me. In fact, as you’re asking, I happen to have really quite a nice life. I have loving parents, wonderful friends; I am well educated and well fed. I am proud of what I have achieved so far in life and am very excited about the future. There’s nothing at all wrong with me.
According to a study published in 1996, physicians are more than twice as likely to kill themselves as non-physicians—and female physicians are three times more likely than males. A separate 2005 project found similar metrics. It isn’t a new phenomenon, but the rise of social media and changing social mores are making some health care professionals more comfortable talking about it.
In the TEDMED talk, she blamed two different phenomenons for a high suicide rate among doctors: A medical school culture of "hazing, bullying, and name-calling" that continues into residency and results in poor medical care for patients and occupational-induced depression for both students and residents, and a professional culture for practicing doctors that dissuades them from seeking mental health treatment.
Wible believes the suicide rate among physicians is even higher than the National Institutes of Health’s cited rate. She says that she believes many death certificates for physicians are miscoded, and that many practicing physicians and residents commit suicide through ambiguous methods such as car crashes.
Institutional discrimination whether covered by the ADA or not....
As ludicrous as the news about the Poole headteacher insisting pupils are sent to school even when they're unwell is, it unfortunately did not come as a shock to me.
Recently I collected my seven-year-old son and opened a brown envelope from his book bag. Every child at his Lincolnshire school, is regularly given a letter awarding them gold, silver, bronze or red status - the only criteria being how many days they were off sick. Beside the band it gives the percentage of attendance.
Gold pupils must 'achieve' 98% or higher. Silver kids are in school 95-98% of the term. Bronze children are there 90-95% of the time. He got bronze. Where else would you be on the third rung for 93.1%?
Why do they think they can punish children for illness? It is utterly unfair to reward families for good health, as this penalises others for sickness. It's a system designed to praise only healthy children - or those who are not well whose parents send them in sick.
In spite of this, his parents decided to disclose this information to the school when filling out medical forms during enrolment, and this was later divulged to other parents. The school then decided to remove Chadam after coming under pressure from the parents of two siblings who suffer from cystic fibrosis, before allowing him to return two weeks later.
The following year, his parents filed a lawsuit accusing the Palo Alto School District of “genetic discrimination,” which they claimed contravened the Americans with Disabilities Act. A district court ruled against the Chadams, finding that the school had acted in the interests of the safety of its pupils.
However, an appeal was lodged with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last month, and has gained support from the Departments of Justice and Education. If successful, it could result in the expansion of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which currently outlaws genetic discrimination in all processes related to employment and health insurance, but has never before been applied to education.