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Originally Posted by Paul
Yet you continue to bring it up, thus making about you .. again.
Again, including you.
A perfect example of the so many things wrong with it.
Its ill thought out, and badly implemented by people who are clearly clueless about technology, the internet, and how the vast majority of forums and other discussion systems work. They cant see any further than twitter, facebook and the 2 or 3 other large SM platforms.
The phrase sledgehammer to crack a nut springs to mind. The "nut" gets crushed, no one wins.  |
Pierre started it off on 17 July at 16:37 and the usual handful came out to join in.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
Some of the posts in this thread has made my blood boil and I finally need to say something. I am not looking for sympathy and I certainly will not mention it again. I am also not using it as a badge of honor.
You see I am classed as disabled I have age related macular degeneration in one eye, I am deaf in both ears that requires me to use hearing aids to carry on a conversation. To top that I found out 19 weeks ago I have bladder cancer and will be having an OP on Monday to remove the tumour. Now I have never used my disability in any of my posts on this forum and was never going to. The fact is that there are those who use their disability as a badge of honor or to try and bend a conversation to there way of thinking. I do not care what other think of my disability and I certainly do not get wound up by any comments. I do not need others to be offended on my behalf or to spend money on a system that is doomed to fail. My outlook on life is to make the most of what I have and ignore the ignorant.
Rant over  |
I totally agree with most of what you say.
Many years ago, however, I was severely bullied from the minute I happened to mention that I had a disability (this was independently verified).
Since then most of the perpetrators have become bored of it, been banned, seen the error of their ways or it transpired that they had a disability of their own that gave rise to their behaviour.
Hopefully now that you have 'come out' as disabled, attitudes have changed and you or anyone else won't face what I did many years ago. There is now less than a handful who crawl out of the woodwork every now and again and egg each other on, the majority of people are fine.
On this occasion it's saved me a job as we were each asked to produce five examples of online disability harrassment for our next zoom meeting.
In the past a lot of people took the 'ignore the ignorant' outlook, but these days people simply won't put up with it and why should they?