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"I kind of remember the blocks
cracking, like a rifle shot, right next to my head, and
then the mobile home falling on me, all 27 tons of it. I
took 60 pints of blood (you have 6-8 in your whole body) in
the 18 hours after the accident." "Did you ever watch the dorks
talking to somebody in a wheelchair? They talk
l-o-u-d-er and clear-er. It's like the gringo
talking to the natives." "The
difference between this place and a
jail was the color of the
uniforms. In jails they'll be tan or gray or something. In
nursing homes, they'll be white. In jails, the guards have
guns. In nursing homes, the guards have meds." "The message was: they're less than
human. They don't count. Fifteen thousand people --
real, live people -- lived in these institutions in our
state." |
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-- Max Starkloff "Whenever we start by believing that
people can't do it, we set up all these systems to do it for
them. Charities do that. Government does that. Independent
Living is something else. IL is independent. "Thou shalt not be known as
service organizations." |
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cover of the Crime Issue of Mouth, its eleventh
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really wanting to help. We may eventually notice that some of what we're trained to do doesn't help. If we still care, we get angry and frustrated. Then we decide we don't just really want to help these poor, misguided people who frustrate our desire to help. We want to really help for a change. "And that means something scary: a
radical change from the stuff that got trained into us. You
either face that fact and make that change or you
don't." "The professionals are always
sitting around saying, 'Now how can we motivate Ms.
Client to do XYZ?' The simple answer is to ask Ms. Client if
she wants to do XYZ. If she says 'No, I don't want to do
that,' then you don't have to worry about motivating
her." |
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