[misc.handicap] GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK..

Don.Blair@p3.f869.n681.z3.fidonet.org (Don Blair) (12/05/90)

Index Number: 12209

G'Day..

I'm glad your back as I have been keeping an eye out for Msg's To and From Ya..

Sorry to hear you've just had fatigue symptom's..
It is fairly common among MS victims..

I get it if I overexert myself and tend to take it real easy to avoid it
as much as possible..  In fact that is the main reason I applied for a
disabled parking permit..  Most of the time I don't really need it but
on a Hot day having to park in a space too far from the shops causes me
havoc..  By the time I get to the shops I am dragging my leg something
chronic and feel like I've just come out of a clothes dryer or something!

By the way..
I'm ANGRY too. Not because someone hassled me for taking a disab. park as
was your case.. But because when my permit arrived in the post, there was
a notice with it.

Partly it read..

'I have read your application for a permit and <I> don't consider that you 
should have a Class 2/4 license. (motorcycle and truck)'

I would not use them anymore anyway, BUT I am annoyed that this puckey little
public servant, who has not even met me, passes this judgement down..

He/She also demands I go for a driver assesment to keep my Car license..

Get this!  On the 19th of December, in the City..

My wife was furious and rang to try and change the asessment to January.
She explained that she is quite able bodied and would not think of going
anywhere near the city so close to Xmas..  Their short, sharp reply was
NO. If he doesn't attend the assesment on the 19th, we will cancel his
license...

Boy am I ANGRY!!  I'd like to get a hold of some of those WE's and I's and
give them a piece of MY mind.. (even though it may be melting..)  :=)

Lucky the same department doesn't know I have a motorboat license and a
diver's permit.. (that I also no longer use).. Or they'd want them too.

Anyway..  I've calmed myself a bit now and let the Alpha waves settle down.

So if I don't catch ya B4.  Merry Xmas to you and everyone else in the Echo.

                                              Don..

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Aaron.Feldman@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Aaron Feldman) (12/13/90)

Index Number: 12465

Dear Don, I can certainly relate to your predicament. As the old saying 
goes G-d save us from the "do-gooders" of the world. I feel I am always 
taking a risk in revealing my condition, for example I was told at the 
local MS association here there was an agency that could assess me for 
hand controls. So I checked it out and found they wanted to do a full 
assessment and give the results to the NYS motor vechilce dept. so I 
decided perhaps my leg was better than my arms and opted to pass that 
one up. I think most of us are well aware of our limitations within 
outside intervention. Also applying for jobs I found several small 
companies just come out and say they couldn't afford and hire me because 
of the higher rate for insurance they would occur just by having me on 
the grounds. Also I have no insurance now where I work because my 
employer (who knows my condition) says they can't afford a health policy 
on me so it is up to me to purchase it. And on it goes. I know the 
disability act has helped some people but sometimes it all seems to 
backfire. Don, have a blessed Holiday season. Peace/Shalom to you and to 
All, aaron

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Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown) (12/14/90)

Index Number: 12474

In Canada it would be discriminatory for an employer to refuse to insure 
an employee on grounds of disability.  Do you know if your state laws say 
anything about this?  Do you hace to appease your employer to keep your 
job?  Is that wise in the long run?

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Chris.Brown@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown) (01/08/91)

Index Number: 12697

What's even more ironic is that most researchers who've looked into
it say the Canadian Health system is cheaper and better because
it's public, not more expensive.  I know what it's like to have to
balance realities with preferred realities, to keep a job rather
than to have full and equal rights from the employer.  And it is
not just small companies that act this way.  Several large
corporations, including such enlightened institutions as the
publicly owned Canadian Broadcorping Castration, (whoops, Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation) were recently fingered by the
CanadianHumanRights Commission as discriminating in employment
practices against persons with disabilities.  (they immediately
produced a bunch of patronizing shows about disabilities, but have
not, to my knowledge, changed their hiring practices.)

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Aaron.Feldman@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Aaron Feldman) (01/09/91)

Index Number: 12769

People keep telling me that it is my fault that I don't have a "good job" 
for their understanding of the Disability Act in the USA is that if you go 
to an employer and tell them you are disabled that automatically they will 
hire you. The reasons are twofold 1. tax break for the company and 2. fear 
of a law suit if they do not hire. I didn't understand the act to read like 
this but this is what I am told. I am frequently asked "Why just didn't you 
tell them you have MS and then they would have had to hire you?" I do have a 
question though *who* determines if you are disabled? Is it the physican or 
the government? Do you carry a little note with you to a future employer 
that says "he's disabled"? JUst strikes me as funny, as in peculiar, 
sometimes. Take care and Shalom, Aaron  
 

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