Comments on: Blogging About Disabilities

By: treadmarkz

treadmarkz — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:24:41 +0000

Thank you for opening my eyes to the radio show that you mentioned in your blog. I will look forward to listening in on it. And I agree that it is important to provide real life experience of the disabled for people to see what it is really like. Let us all keep doing just that.

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Strip Down Your Blog: CSS Naked Day « Lorelle on WordPress — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:01:42 +0000

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By: Disabled People

Disabled People — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:28:04 +0000

Seems to me that the virtual world of the Internet provides a level playing field where having a disability is not necessarily a handicap!

By: Joni Mueller

Joni Mueller — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:32:49 +0000

Excellent, Lorelle, and once more you’ve touched on a subject close to my heart. My husband became a paraplegic four years ago. He went from walking everywhere he went, even to the corner grocery store (and I still take my CAR there!), to being in a wheelchair. It’s been a tough hall and I set up a WP blog for him to write should the mood strike. At first it was a blog to keep his family members updated while he struggled with rehabilitation the first year. He hasn’t written in it much, but I hope he will eventually. I think he may find he has a lot to say. Thanks for this post.

By: Randall Klopping

Randall Klopping — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:12:12 +0000

I too have started a blog, part to talk about what it is like for me with my disabilities and to start showing my art to try to earn some money. One of the most frustrating things about living with disabilities is that we don’t get to go work a normal job & earn money, don’t get days off, vacations or such from our disabilities, its 24/7/365 year after year after year.

I fight hard for my rights and work hard to build somekind of a life again and get frustrated because it often feels like my hard work and honesty means very little to society as a whole.

By: Paisley Place

Paisley Place — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:22:50 +0000

The internet has changed the way people view the disabled and I can speak on the subject since I am a woman of many disabilities including blindness from a hereditary eye disease, extraordinarily small optic nerves, and two autoimmune diseases that contribute to my blindness as well as problems with my immune system. If this were not enough, I have problems with nerve damage in my right arm.

However, today, I am a freelance writer and novelist. I do beta testing and product reviews. It is not much but it does keep me busy when I am well enough from the autoimmune diseases to write. Writing is my passion. Few people get to do something for a living that they enjoy and receive payment for it. Granted, the pay is not anywhere near enough to sustain my daughter and me but we manage.

Paisley Place
http://www.paisleyplace.com/

By: Website Development - Keywords Help You Write Your Blog « Lorelle on WordPress

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:00:08 +0000

[...] Researching the top keywords on related topics also gives me many ideas for related article possibilities. For instance, searching for the top searched keywords associated with how people blog has led me to consider articles about bloggers blogging about disabilities, travel, photography, television, city/metro bloggers, celebrity blogs, and many other ways people use blogs to get their message across. The ideas are now spilling out all over the place, giving me so many topics to write about, it’s getting harder to choose which one to do next. [...]

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Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:31:34 +0000

[...] I wrote an article called “Blogging About Disabilities”, highlighting bloggers with disabilities blogging about their disabilities, sharing with the world what it is like to see, hear, feel, and exist in their bodies where “normal” for them is different than “normal” for most. As I continue examining how people blog, I stumbled upon a large number of bloggers who focus on disabilities. While these subjects were once rarely discussed in “proper society”, the subject of the disabled, mentally and physically challenged, mentally ill, and other disabilities are now out in the open. There are tons of people talking about what it is to be disabled, living with disabilities, facing disabilities, and living with people who are disabled. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 May 2006 18:10:15 +0000

re: “This kind of open candor is what makes reading the blogs by disabled people fascinating and encouraging.”

Exactly. And it’s the candor and frankness that makes these kind of blogs compelling, as well as informative and helpful.

By: Mathemagenic

Mathemagenic — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:25:09 +0000

Blogging about disabilities