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Originally Posted by nfs6600
If peoples replies on the forum are upsetting you, the best advice your support worker should give you would be to be stop posting. If the replies you get upset you, rethink what you post in the first place?
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Think i'll stick to taking advice from those with qualifications and experience in such matters. I don't see why I should have to stop using the forum just because i'm severely disabled.
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Originally Posted by Paul M
Let me make this crystal clear, this is not your forum Richard, and you are not in a position to be making demands.
If you cannot cope with other peoples replies, and people disagreeing with you, then I suggest you leave until you can.
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Indeed, I don't have the authority to make any demands, it was actually a polite request for him to stop hassling me.
I have no problem with people disagreeing with me (after all, that's part of the reasons why mattrrs are debated). It's the tone and way that he does it (despite knowing of my limitations when criticising to a ridiculous level) that I find upsetting.
I was rather hoping for some support to enable me to continue using the forum.
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Richard sorry but your being very thin skinned and personally i see you as one of those who represent a major problem we have these days in this country in thinking everything should accomadate you or adapt to you. It's all over the internet at the minute people going to parts that don't suit them usually posting comments\threads they know will get disagreed with then expecting it to change rather then doing the old fashioned thing of not going to those sites or whatever and going to sites more inline with that person.
The internet is vast and caters to all it's upto the individual to find their happy place which there are plenty of not to go somewhere and expect it to change. Free speech is fast dying in the UK because people are too thin skinned or quick to play an ism card of some sort when they don't get their way and I'm getting tired of it. I'm disabled i have had to deal with people insulting me for that in the past and I've dealt with it in one of two ways, firstly if it's a forum or other site that i know will support the people insulting me I don't go back or if like cable forum there isn't an ingrained acceptance of such behaviour i learnt not to let it get to me and got a little better at my comebacks on the very odd occasion it's needed.
What i never did was report it to admins or as a lot are doing these days the police i find that absolutely pathetic unless specific threats of violence were made by someone who knows your address. Free speech isn't meant to be easy, it isn't meant to only apply if you like it and it shouldn't be stiffled because some people are too precious.
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But I enjoy interacting with the majority of members and don't see why I should be subject to this treatment by a tiny minority. People go to admin/the police as there are laws to prevent this happening.
If you think of a brain injury as like a computer with a virus, it will sometimes take ages to come up with the correct answer or the wrong answer may be the end result!
Any right thinking person would want to help and not abuse this situation.
As the population ages, there are going to be more cases of people becoming disabled (particularly with regards to cancer and dementia), should they be critiscised for forgetting things?
In the past I've helped elderly people get things down from the shelves of supermarkets, I wouldn't have dreamt of refusing and saying that it was their problem to deal with it. A lady I knew had a stroke in her forties and could hardly speak, she just kept repeating a few words (which became a new type of basic language for her to communicate). I didn't mock her or say that she was getting on my nerves; I (and others) helped her all we could before she sadly died at an early age.
Statistics show that the majority of people will either become disabled through attack, disease, accident or old age. If they are lucky enough to escape this, then it's extremely likely that one of their loved ones won't.
I suppose what i'm trying to say is, don't tempt fate and be kind to others.