Silent protests are a great way of making your opinion know – without screaming or arguing or fighting over it. Silence can say more than words. For this reason, there are silent protests for a variety of issues. Two in the U.S. are the Day of Silence for gay rights and the Day of Silent [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Prohibiting Silent Protest: Is It the Method or the Issue?
Posted in Gender and Sexuality, Politics and Current Events, Pro-Life on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Disability Identity, Culture, and Politics: Should They Be Connected?
Posted in Autism, Blindness, Disability Advocacy on April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I found out that the next Disability Blog Carnival will be about disability identity and disability culture, and I don’t know what to write about. Oh well, in fact, I could write many different posts, and I think I’m going to. Not just as a way of contributing to the carnival (after all, then there [...]
Equal Expectations: Does It Need to Be Exactly the Same?
Posted in Blindness on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read an article in the most recent issue of Future Reflections (the magazine of the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children). Of course, it was about equal expectations, as this organization aims towards the “good enough” standard for disability rights: blind children should be expected to achieve at least the same as [...]
Anti-Psychotics Change Metabolism
Posted in Health and Medical Care, Medication, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’ve known this forever, but according to this news story, it’s fairly ground-breaking research suggesting this: atypical anti-psychotics change metabolism. In lab rats given olanzapine (Zyprexa), abdominal fat and blood glucose were significantly increased compared to rats given the classic anti-psychotic haloperidol (Haldol) and rats who did not receive either drug. These are both [...]
Am I Good Enough for Patient Rights?
Posted in Autism, Disability Advocacy, Personal, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today, I feel that I’m not good enough for neurodiversity. It’s Autism Awareness Month in the USA, and of course this means that the neurodiversity activists jump up to interrupt the thousands of autism recovery parents who claim their child was cured by some unapproved and unproven treatment. They always hint at how wonderful autistics [...]
