Just some impressions from a Facebook article objecting to disabled people using themselves and being used as inspirational figures.

"I must admit I have never heard of Scott Hamilton. It is unclear from the article whether he is just saying what he believes to be true which is fair enough in the same way that if I believe the moon is made of cheese is true. He has the right to see it and say it  as he believes it.

 Bad attitude is a problem with anybody me included! I have my moments with that one sometimes. I have had to take to task both my lads over the  20 years that I have known them with bad attitude and how it obstructs their progress towards the goals that they wish to achieve. I can honestly say as a father it is probably the main thing that has made a big difference in terms of them getting to go where they want to.

I cannot see how the author of this article can actually know what nondisabled people think about the images of disabled people doing things even when normals do indeed say pretty ridiculous things. How many times have I expressed something in words which does not express the feelings I meant to put over and doesn't express the idea either. I'm pretty grateful for the many forgiving people around me. I made quite a blunder last night on a Facebook comment with a York female friend Sybil Wood where I had simply got the wrong end of the stick. What conclusion is she to draw from that? That at that point in time I was a total idiot! She would be absolutely right.

It has occurred to me for a while Emma that some disabled people are just like normal's who are pretty so they use their prettiness to sell themselves or are muscular and use their muscles to sell themselves and so on. Some disabled people are using their disability to sell themselves. This is all part of some disabled people acting like normals have done and is to be welcomed as dumb and sickening as it can be at times in the same way that some of the television talent shows are pretty pathetic.

Absolutely anything which I have heard said about disabled people which somebody else could comment about in a negative or positive way I have actually heard the same for people with no disability and I think it is just part of our looking at each other culture and completely drawing the wrong conclusions mostly because I don't know how somebody else really thinks even when they tell me. I am more in tune with what is going on with this Capability Assessment business rather than the psychological impressions of this article. Yet again though this article is talking about "disabled people" and the author certainly does not speak for me at all. Who is she speaking for other than herself?

On a personal note my wife has chronic sinusitis and it is a type of disability and has cost her at least five years of work which she would have done had she been healthy. Am I one of the people that Stella Young is referring to when I say to Fiona as I often do "it's great you are trying to get out and about today Fiona even though I know you are quite ill." Making an effort whether a person is disabled or not in my view is always praiseworthy."