A very interesting post by ballastexistenz on a kind of disablism many persons with disabilities have to deal with. Drawing on some of her own experiences, she discusses more specifically how persons with cognitive or developmental disabilities are accused of being manipulative and/or considered impertinent by certain health-care professionals and she does an honest job of trying to figure out why this occurs, where it comes from.
Reading her post, I was reminded of the many times I was confronted with some of the situations she describes and that I vaguely touched upon in this post last year. And because I am at the core an idealistic fool, for the life of me I can not understand why, as a species and as a society, we have not gotten past this kind of stuff yet.