MNHQ - are they disabilist?

[Sixweekstowait]

Having had a thread deleted with no communication with me until I asked ( but then I'm disabled and so invisible) , having read on the second class citizen thread of examples of disabilist language which HQ defend, I am beginning to think they are. I now think they were really really wrong to delete my thread and that they have NO IDEA about the everyday discrimination that people with disabilities face in even trying to travel to work, care even less and I would like to know how many of their staff are disabled?

[BeyondTellsEveryoneRealFacts]

Bourdic, i didnt see your other thread, but just want to send you some and say i hope you are doing as okay as you are going to. People can be utterly shit sometimes

[Sixweekstowait]

I made a joke on the waking neighbour at 2am thread ( about barking dogs) and got reported and deleted and called a 'dog hating psycho' - well let's see how long that disabilist language is allowed to stand.

[Jasonandyawegunorts]

There is a disabled parents section?

Yes, There is also an Mumsnetters with SN section in case you don't have children.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/disabled_parents
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnetters_with_sn

[MrsJayy]

There is a disabled parents section?

[gonetoseeamanaboutadog]

That post about a deaf member of mnhq seems more of an admission that there is very little thought/policy in relation to disabilities than anything else.

I don't know what MN does in relation to disabilities generally, there may be all sorts of good work I'm unaware of. My only experience of them was when I was a disabled parent and it was discouragingly similar to most other institutions- MNHQ wanted to be seen to care about people with disabilities by people without disabilities.

They used to keep the disabled parenting (not even parenting with disabilities) in the special needs section, not the parenting section. You really had to hunt to find it and I found it quite derogatory and almost hurtful, as if it meant I wasn't a real parent because I had 'special needs'. I and a couple of others in a similar position messages MNHQ asking for this change and we were fobbed off for about a year. So eventually i started a thread about it and lots of able bodied posters came on to say 'what an oversight, that should be changed at once'.

And it was.

I cannot tell you how impotent that made me feel.

[Jasonandyawegunorts]

personally i don't see the need for the devide, shouldn't you all be helping one another?

[grannyinwaiting]

May daughter and I are considered deaf from birth with ear abnormality on top but don't integrate with the deaf community, use sign language or consider ourselves disabled to be honest. I don't really know where we fit in !

[sashh]

It would be very hard to be anti integration. Deaf people might have Deaf partners but they are most likely to have hearing family and hearing children

But if those children are BSL users then they are part of the Deaf community. Please see my previous post.

[sashh]

Can someone explain what the significance of deaf/Deaf is?

Deaf is someone who identifies as part of the Deaf community, is a BSL user and sees themselves as part of a linguistic minority and does not always identify as having a disability. I have also come across someone who identifies as Deaf although he had normal hearing. His argument was that his parents and wife are Deaf and BSL is his first and preferred language.

deaf, or 'small d deaf' means someone who has not got normal hearing and who is probably part of the hearing community, often someone who has lost their hearing as part of the aging process.

[MrsJayy]

I was once put forward for an interview for an inspection for a place I worked picked at random apparently at the interview there was me (disabled) a man (gay) and a woman it was tick tick tick Bingo

[BishopBrennansArse]

If better lose the capital then by that definition.

I do identify the deaf community as separate from the hearing one but I'm not anti integration.

[MrsJayy]

Oh how diverse of them Mrsdv

[Jasonandyawegunorts]

Can someone explain what the significance of deaf/Deaf is?

It's the people who intergrate themselves into the hearing community and the ones that do not. Frusso was talking about it when her DD got a cochlear implant.

[Bearsinmotion]

I know Miffle, I guess the question wasn't appropriate either!

[BishopBrennansArse]

I'm Deaf, a wheelchair user and have children with Autism if we're playing too trumps on disability qualification...