On Oct 23, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Matthew Joseph Harrington wrote:
Am I therefore to be encouraged to rail against the fact that the
Americans With Disabilities Act does not cover people with
fibromyalgia, an incurable genetic illness which keeps me from
holding a regular job, and has in fact lost me every one I have had?
I feel for you. There's little worse in life than suffering from a
chronic disease that nobody really understands and that there are no
effective treatments for.
I have done so elsewhere. I have not done so here, because I
supposed it had nothing to do with BASFA, notwithstanding that I am
a part of it.
I'm not going to play the "relative suffering" game.
I am going to ask you how you would feel if your life was up for
public referendum, and how you would react.
Mine is, but I hadn't made a big deal about it on-list or at meetings.
I believe my response was rather measured, but then again, I've been
living with this question since the early 90's (time doesn't lead me
to bitterness, it leads me to clarity). I asked people to see my
livejournal for my opinion, and posted on-list one of the few
incontrovertable facts of the initiative.
andy
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