Maybe We Should Point Out That This Is Precisely The Problem With Normal People: They Only Officially

Maybe we should point out that this is precisely the problem with normal people: they only officially recognise the achievements of disabled people when it is obvious.

They cheer on the Paralympics, but in everyday life, disabled people are marginalised.

It's time for an Revolution of Inclusion, and you can shove your crappy pity from the normal world up your arse!

The economy is missing out on the full potential that lies fallow when companies make up all sorts of excuses for not hiring disabled people.

A brief question: How many disabled people worldwide are in corporate management positions as CEOs and what does the internet say?

Or how many people with disabilities hold high positions in state organisations or are even heads of state?

Well, it all looks pretty bleak, doesn't it?

It is a historical travesty that to this day there is no equality, no equal opportunities, no equal understanding at eye level.

In workshops for the disabled, the most disadvantaged of us can screw things together for an exploitative wage. That is pathetic.

Disabled people can and want to help shape this world to make it a better place for all of us.

If the revolution does not come, then disabled people would have to provoke it with all its consequences.

Sometimes you have to hit society in the face to be seen if there is no other way.

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About 16% of all people worldwide have a disability. It is evident that we have a significant presence in this world.

Facts about disability and development

1.3 billion people live with a disability. Measured against the world population, this is 16 per cent.

On the one hand, people are living longer and longer; on the other hand, there is a worldwide increase in chronic health problems. Both trends are leading to an increase in the incidence of disabilities.

80 per cent of all people with disabilities live in developing areas.

Women, older people and the poor are disproportionately affected by disability.

In poverty-stricken areas, an estimated 65 million children of school age live with disabilities. Around half of them do not attend school.

Visual impairment

Every 10 seconds, a person goes blind due to poverty, including one child every minute.

Worldwide, around 43 million people are blind, including 2 million children. Of the 43 million blind people, 17 million suffer from correctable cataracts, the most common cause of blindness.

3.6 million have lost their sight due to glaucoma.

3 million people are forced to live blind simply because they lack optical correction.

2.8 million people are at risk of going blind from trachoma. Countless numbers are infected with the bacterial pathogen. 1.9 million people are already irreversibly visually impaired or blind as a result. Clean water, improved hygiene, eye ointments or tablets, and eyelid surgery can prevent blindness.

In Africa in particular, millions of people are at risk of going blind from river blindness. Around half a million people have lost their sight to river blindness. The tablet Mectizan® stops the process of going blind.

80 per cent of blindness could be prevented and 50 per cent of child blindness if the necessary means were available.

Approximately 295 million people suffer from low vision, 10 per cent of whom are children.

Around 90 per cent of all people with visual impairments live in developing areas. There, people are eight times more likely to risk going blind.

In large parts of sub-Saharan Africa, there is only one ophthalmologist for every million people (in Switzerland, the ratio is 1:13,000).

Physical disability

Approximately 150 million people worldwide have a physical disability. Among them are around two million children.

Hearing impairment

Around 450 million people worldwide have a moderate to severe hearing impairment, including 30 million children.

Over 70 million people are deaf.

Each year, less than ten percent of the hearing aids needed worldwide are produced. In developing areas, fewer than three percent of people with hearing loss receive a hearing aid each year.

About half of all cases of hearing loss could be avoided with early treatment.

Mental disability

One in four people will develop a mental illness at some point in their lives.

Approximately 250 million people worldwide suffer from depression. Around 50 million people live with schizophrenia.

Sources, including: World Report on Disability of the World Health Organization WHO, 2011; WHO Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities, 2022; International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness IAPB, 2023

We should build a monument to this man....

Come on, Jimmy, come on, you can do it.

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I have never stopped playing, analogue or digital. Playing takes me away from the daily grind... for a brief pleasure of forgetting.

To say that shooting games cause violence is to acknowledge and deny the true causes and origins of violence.

I've been killing in the digital world on digital battlefields for years, and I don't even own a real gun in the real world.

All my heroes have to die in order to be resurrected.

there are 143 of them here

It's just a game, and it's never been more than that when I was young or when I was older, nothing more or less, and yet everything in the moment of playing.

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An individual who engages in gaming for its intrinsic enjoyment. 🙃🤣✌️🎮

Real men are feminists.

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They IT, Kyoto and gamers guys live in a self-reinforcing perceptual bubble in which women are willing playmates because they only perceive the world in 2D.

But they are not, and they know it when they think about it. To win them over as voters, you have to make them an offer, and that really just means recognising them, because talking to them will enable you to change their perspective.

Trump and his minions are not really what they want as a role model.

Because they're not, and you don't have to apologise for being out of touch.

They are a dying breed who will never treat women as equals.

Anyone who listened to Trump's speech, where he said that women would be safe, happy and healthy and that he would protect them if they voted for him, and didn't think of a pimp who only seeks his own advantage, doesn't really understand what the man thinks of women!

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‘They think he is the worst’: JD Vance’s extraordinary low approval ratings with swing voters

Sarah Longwell, Executive Director of “Republican Voters Against Trump”, Claire McCaskill, former Senator from Missouri and Mini Timmaraju, President of Reproductive Freedom for All joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with continued reaction to the toxic and unappealing rhetoric from the Trump Vance ticket and how it is catered to what seems to be the only demographic that matters, white men.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I absolutely love September, especially when we're in it!

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Everyone please rise for the national anthem.

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