Silenced. The Hidden History Of Disability...

[Elderflower14]

I'm watching this with interest..
Ds2 is profoundly deaf, autistic and dyspraxic... I really admire Cerie.
There is also another programme tomorrow night about disability hate crime too.
Ds has experienced this several times and isn't sure he can watch tomorrow... 😔 😔 😔

Watching it now, it's so sad, how those children were treated in the old days. 'Feeble minded' fgs.

I'd like to think we've come on in recent times but reading your post maybe not

Ds was the victim of an attempted mugging about 6 years ago walking home one night. Luckily he got away..
Three years ago on the underground when I was with ds2 a man kicked him on the foot and told him to be quiet.. Suffice to say by the time I finished with him he and the entire carriage was silent.. Turns out the man was drunk.. I'd like to think he wouldn't do it again but who knows.
He's also had people say terrible things to him online. It breaks my heart...

Oh that's horrible Elderflower14, what is wrong with some people?

I’m training to be an AHP so had a lecture earlier on this topic coincidentally ... one of the things we discussed was vulnerability and whether that necessarily correlated to the level of disability .

For example - you can be very vulnerable but less disabled . You can have mild autism (as I do) and be very vulnerable to feeling socially isolated or being taken advantage of - and at the other end of the scale you can be profoundly disabled and less likely to be depressed or low self esteem, but equally vulnerable in other ways ...

It’s amazing how far we have come in the last hundred years - even the last forty years - you only have to compare this programme with the similar ‘silent minority’ of the early 80s - but I think things like the winterbourne scandal and the rates of adults with ID in prison show we have a hell of a long way to go sadly .

This needs more publicity. There seemed to be no advance publicity. What the...? It needs to be mainstream knowledge. These attitudes have N O T been eradicated.
And that is why the reprehensible Sumption told the young woman her life was not worth as much as others.
That is why there is still no law to ban construction of housing which will be impossible to live in, should any future resident become a wheelchair user.

Heads up for tomorrow. 9.Disability Hate Crime
On BBC2 but evidently they hope nobody will notice. The BBC fills the schedule with endless endless endless sport and silliness.

You might think they don't know old people exist, and certainly they pretend to themselves there may be no more than one or two among the population who are affected directly or indirectly by disability.

Almost the entire population, though, are football obsessed.

Only an insignificant minority of the population are women .
The majority of the full human beings (i.e. men,) are transgender or gay and bame, so the interests and problems and needs of all licence payers are proportionately represented..

Cerie was on Good Morning Sunday last weekend on Radio 2 discussing it...

I did see an advert for this but only luck. It’s not “on trend”. Even though we have Disability History month every year it’s miles behind Pride month and the profile they get when it’s their month. It’s only really those of us that have interest in the issues or live with them that every take any notice.

Hello it me Wilf. I has to say I has been watching this show it has been interesting for me to understand about what those disabled people has been though difficult time like I do like what my mum said I did have some awful people who wasnt understanding about me or my disability and they wasn’t nice to me online also I got mugged few year ago but I stay strong and here I am I doing lots of things during the lockdown at moment I doing lots of teaching signing regularly online also I has you tube channel that I posted on there regularly too I also does signed songs too

@RainbowWilf996

Hello it me Wilf. I has to say I has been watching this show it has been interesting for me to understand about what those disabled people has been though difficult time like I do like what my mum said I did have some awful people who wasnt understanding about me or my disability and they wasn’t nice to me online also I got mugged few year ago but I stay strong and here I am I doing lots of things during the lockdown at moment I doing lots of teaching signing regularly online also I has you tube channel that I posted on there regularly too I also does signed songs too

I’m glad you found it interesting Wilf 😊💙

Some people are just horrible, sadly, I’m so sorry you were mugged .

I’m glad you’re keeping busy in lockdown, it’s a difficult time isn’t it ! I’m hoping to try and learn some sign language soon (and makaton too), I think it will help me with my job - it’s a brilliant thing to be able to do ! Perhaps I can look at your videos to learn more 😊

I does teach Makaton and BSL signing too and I will PM you my you tube channel

If anyone interested of signing or want to follow my you tube channel i will DM you all my channel

I think PaulaClaire87 you should keep such opinions to yourself and certainly not on this thread!!

@RainbowWilf996

I does teach Makaton and BSL signing too and I will PM you my you tube channel

Thank you very much 😊

I was a SW working with people with disabilities during the run up to parliament acknowledging that they should have equal rights with the able-bodied. It was an exciting time. And a massive and long-overdue shift in attitudes.

But maybe not.....some of the responses to the presenter being on Children's TV were shameful.

I remember her on CBeebies, my kids used to watch her when they were little. I remember the hoo-ha over having a one armed presenter at the time and it was ridiculous, pretty sure most kids didn't even notice.

Wilf my old Nan was mugged, twice! There are some really horrible people out there but I think most people are nice, so keep on keeping on and don't let the bad ones get you down 👍

Watched this now
Really interesting and fascinating and shocking
You don't realise that law was only changed so recently really
I remember when she became a cbeebies presenter and reading that some parents had complained. Amazing that that would even happen
As I understand it when Ceri was on cbeebies, Mr Tumble was already on and that has disabled people in so it can't have been a new thing