"[£200,000] is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too."
A leading member of the self-advocacy movement has called on peers to investigate huge apparent cuts to in-work support for people with learning difficulties.
Yesterday evening, when doing my usual surf through the innumerable posts on Twitter, I spotted one which posed a question that made me think.
Stigma is when people have negative ideas, perceptions or beliefs around a condition or a person's identity that aren't based on fact.
I have just been reading an excellent blog, written by Labour Peer, Dame Anne Begg, about disabled people and politics.
Dyslexia. It's a word many parents dread when they hear it in reference to their own children. What their "lay" minds take in is that they have a child who will face struggles throughout his/her schooling and in life. Dyslexia never goes away. There is no medication to mitigate the symptoms; worse, it is an invisible disability which (if undiagnosed) subjects the sufferer to lots of misunderstanding and criticism for things over which s/he has not control.
