From the other side - the tragic, the pitiable and the well-deserving. EVER wonder why people with disability get so mad at charity ads? Charity ads depict people with disability as victims of circumstance, tragic figures who are deserving of pity. Its often the most common way people without disability learn to define and explain disability. This is not to advocate dismantling charities and outlaw caring, charitable acts, which enrich our society and bring badly needed .

I have recently become aware that my youngest child, Samantha Kotch, is trying to drive me to an early grave.