Get Some Perspective

I was recently asked to be on a taskforce because of “all of my contacts in the disability community.” The thing is, I don’t really have many, and the ones I do have, I don’t think of in that way.

I was on the receiving end of what to me is an extremely odd assumption.

I do understand why heads turn in my direction and folks want my opinion when disability related subjects come up. I can certainly offer some perspective based on my own experience.

But I’d never claim to be an expert on disability in general. There are certain aspects of it I know nothing about.

There’s diversity within groups of people, and I find it ironic that in lumping people together and making assumptions about them, we often stereotype when trying to diversify.