Hi,
Disclaimer: Yes this post may offend but I really don't care! The whole concept of blogging is to voice your opinions online and that's exactly what I am doing- I'm not going to hide anything in this post or hold back and it's my opinion so I am not really going to apologise.
Right now that is out of the way, lets get on with the post.....
So a few months ago I wrote about PE and whether or not I like it; that all still stands and I enjoy it so much fun but there's only one thing that I despise about the subject- the competition side of it. I'm not trying to diss really sporty people or anything but from a kid with CP point of view it sucks.
My school's PE department is brilliant and they try to include me in every sport they can and I'm really grateful for that. but that's the staff and quite frankly speaking they are paid to do that, it's part of the job really. What annoys me though, is that the kids are less open minded about that sort of stuff, particularly some girls in set one. These girls are my friends but when sport is involved, to be honest they only care for winning.
I think I first really realised this when my set and their set joined up with one another for a lesson, a teacher was probably off and it was the easiest thing to do. Anyway to make it fair, the teacher decided to mix the sets up for the teams. The majority of the people on my team were from the top set so it was bound to be competitive, I knew that, it's obvious.
I'm not the most sporty of people there is but I try my damn hardest, I'll give myself that. I also am not the most competitive person if I lose, so what? But I noticed that, especially,the set one girls practically treat me as if I were invisible. At first I shrugged it off but they kept on doing it by then I was really annoyed and left our game to sit out. Not one of them battered an eyelid ; they just carried on.
My PE teacher saw me sitting out and came over to make sure I was all right, thinking about this now she'd only taught me for a couple of months and still knew when I was angry/annoyed- the power of blogger huh, anyway she could see i was upset about it and asked why and said this was extremely out of character for me, I told her-by then I was almost in tears,almost.
The thing that hurt most was that, if me and one of those girls were in a science class together, they would listen to me and include me. Yet in sports I'm a liability and a burden, a barrier stopping them from winning so they toss me aside and exclude me. I get that I am slow, I limp and that I have a walking stick, I've known this for nearly 13 years now, but that certainly doesn't mean I am incapable of thinking strategically or throwing a ball! My brain works okay it's just my body that doesn't cooperate fully. And what's even worse- they know it!
That's what I hate about competitive sports with people who don't know how I 'work', no one includes us,we are ignored unless someone more senior interferes and we are practically placed on the subs bench.
By the way, we ended up coming second (karma is a powerful vessel ;-)
Next week we start competition block in PE and yes we are going to be joining up again, I have spoken about people who I work well with to my teacher and I looked at the board of teams on the Friday we broke up- no one,who will include me without me explaining Is on my team, I've told the top set teacher and we'll see what happens.
But of course you can tell, I can't wait! Jk
Byeeeeeeee
Sunday 14 February 2016
Saturday 13 February 2016
Clothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi,
So I was reading the news recently and in my opinion a major win for disabled people has occurred.
The British retailer Marks and Spencer are going to be releasing a clothing line aimed to help children with special needs. The range will be called m&s and me which includes bodysuits and vests with poppers going up to a size 8 years, which is much appreciated by parents of children with disabilities.
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| Some of the clothes on the M&S website |
A spokesman for marks and Spencer has said: "The range currently comprises a small number of products that will be available online in the next few weeks - as with all new ranges, we will closely monitor customer interest and listen carefully to customer feedback on how it should be developed in the future"
I know its only clothes but I feel this is going to make many people's lives so much easier.
Byeeeeeeeeeee
Friday 12 February 2016
What happened on Tuesday.......
Hi,
I've been quiet the last few weeks,so sorry for that! I didn't know when to post this so how about right now?
On Tuesday, I met up with 2 lecturers of social work from the university of Sheffield to talk about my blog and the prospect of working with them with the living library project they are working on. But more on that at a later date.
I was also asked to give feedback on the first year MA students presentations. So after lunch, I had a salad (I know! I'm amazed I stuck to my resolution too!), me,my mum and one of the the lecturers went to another block where the presentations were being presented and recorded; it was documented so the students can assess it for something. Anyway it was really cool.
The students were given the topic 'a day in my life', they had to make a poster about it, then present and explain it to social service users, in this case me! And we gave 5 minutes of feedback. Your probably wondering why on earth would this be part of the course but I guess it gives the students an idea of how they need to be like, in terms of explaining etc.
For me it was really interesting. This could be because of 2 reasons- I am a extremely nosey person, no joke or maybe it was because, mostly, they all seemed 'social-worker-y' like I could imagine them all as social workers, weird as that is. The thing that made me laugh was how nervous they were, one student literally spoke like she was Eminem rapping, I mean I get why she did that but calm down- we aren't that intense,are we? The two that I remember most are the first guy we saw and the last one, this is mainly because they were so 'relaxed' they sang. relaxed is in inverted comas because there was a tiny bit of pressure involved- Before you think we are horrible humans,in our defence they both put on their posters that they went to karaoke on the day they modelled it on so it sort of was compulsory.
So that's what I've been up to. School on Monday ugghhhh!
Anyway
Byeeeeeeeee
I've been quiet the last few weeks,so sorry for that! I didn't know when to post this so how about right now?
On Tuesday, I met up with 2 lecturers of social work from the university of Sheffield to talk about my blog and the prospect of working with them with the living library project they are working on. But more on that at a later date.
I was also asked to give feedback on the first year MA students presentations. So after lunch, I had a salad (I know! I'm amazed I stuck to my resolution too!), me,my mum and one of the the lecturers went to another block where the presentations were being presented and recorded; it was documented so the students can assess it for something. Anyway it was really cool.
The students were given the topic 'a day in my life', they had to make a poster about it, then present and explain it to social service users, in this case me! And we gave 5 minutes of feedback. Your probably wondering why on earth would this be part of the course but I guess it gives the students an idea of how they need to be like, in terms of explaining etc.
For me it was really interesting. This could be because of 2 reasons- I am a extremely nosey person, no joke or maybe it was because, mostly, they all seemed 'social-worker-y' like I could imagine them all as social workers, weird as that is. The thing that made me laugh was how nervous they were, one student literally spoke like she was Eminem rapping, I mean I get why she did that but calm down- we aren't that intense,are we? The two that I remember most are the first guy we saw and the last one, this is mainly because they were so 'relaxed' they sang. relaxed is in inverted comas because there was a tiny bit of pressure involved- Before you think we are horrible humans,in our defence they both put on their posters that they went to karaoke on the day they modelled it on so it sort of was compulsory.
So that's what I've been up to. School on Monday ugghhhh!
Anyway
Byeeeeeeeee
Thursday 4 February 2016
Disability dating
Hi,
So this is a topic I'm not familiar with at all: dating people when you have a disability. I'm no expert on this, I've never experienced it but it's a hurdle most disabled people have so that's why I'm writing about it.
Where to start? Well I once read that 95% of abled-bodied people age between 14-21 would never think of dating a physically disabled person. That's terrible. Why? I mean just because we have a wheelchair or whatever it makes us practically undateable.
Another thing that show 'the undateable' which has mostly some kind of person with disabilities on it, always makes me annoyed as we are HUMAN beings and are dateable it is just society's closed mind saying we aren't.
Anyway and everyone says it isn't all about looks but it is! Yeah you might be attracted to their intelligence; surely you have to be attracted by the way they look a little bit, everyone is.its so sad really that great people get turned down just because of their physical appearance. Arrrrrggghhhhhh!!! Why is everyone so close minded???????????
I have a friend at school who has a disability (I don't know what it is) and he is in a wheelchair and he's being going out with this girl for about a year and everything was fine, I think, and she dumped him. Her reason to him? Because he has a disability and it was pointless because of that. I mean what? Is it pointless when they first got together? Surely not as she wouldn't have stayed with him. I simply don't get it if that's the only reason they split. And that has annoyed me, a lame excuse. In my opinion it doesn't even add up. I really don't know why what how. But it's not right at all.
Sorry it's a bit short
Byeeeeeeeeee
So this is a topic I'm not familiar with at all: dating people when you have a disability. I'm no expert on this, I've never experienced it but it's a hurdle most disabled people have so that's why I'm writing about it.
Where to start? Well I once read that 95% of abled-bodied people age between 14-21 would never think of dating a physically disabled person. That's terrible. Why? I mean just because we have a wheelchair or whatever it makes us practically undateable.
Another thing that show 'the undateable' which has mostly some kind of person with disabilities on it, always makes me annoyed as we are HUMAN beings and are dateable it is just society's closed mind saying we aren't.
Anyway and everyone says it isn't all about looks but it is! Yeah you might be attracted to their intelligence; surely you have to be attracted by the way they look a little bit, everyone is.its so sad really that great people get turned down just because of their physical appearance. Arrrrrggghhhhhh!!! Why is everyone so close minded???????????
I have a friend at school who has a disability (I don't know what it is) and he is in a wheelchair and he's being going out with this girl for about a year and everything was fine, I think, and she dumped him. Her reason to him? Because he has a disability and it was pointless because of that. I mean what? Is it pointless when they first got together? Surely not as she wouldn't have stayed with him. I simply don't get it if that's the only reason they split. And that has annoyed me, a lame excuse. In my opinion it doesn't even add up. I really don't know why what how. But it's not right at all.
Sorry it's a bit short
Byeeeeeeeeee
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