want a free mint wheelchair?

If you live in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, and need a free wheelchair, contact me: 

richard.cassel@alumni.utoronto.ca

twice as likely to be unemployed

"Sometimes I think I should go around with my CV or my grades tattooed on my forehead.”

When you learn that two thirds of the British public feel uncomfortable just talking to a person with a disability, you quickly realize why people with disabilities fail to receive the same employment opportunities as many others.

- Sir Richard Branson's Virgin

Are you elderly and need a ride, food?

If you live in KW Cambridge, contact CSC.

high-octane

"He who has a Why to live, can bear with almost any How."
- Nietzsche

warmth and bravado

"It's important to separate one's ability from disability."
- Itzhak Perlman

on fair chance

"Disability doesn't mean lack of ability."

banned

August Sander, 1876-1964

Photographs of the disabled did not adhere to the ideal Aryan type.

affinity for those who didn't fit in

At the Moulin Rouge, 1895

An earlier reference to Toulouse-Lautrec here.

abled

Cody McCasland lost his legs when he was 15 months old to a rare condition called Sacral Agenesis. More images here.

wound seriously

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

but

That which does not kill us can also leave us maimed and ruined for life.

An earlier reference to Nietzsche here.

fightclub

Six employees of a Texas home for mentally disabled adults have been charged with encouraging residents to fight each other. Story here.

The registered disability savings plan

Government steps up to plate for disabled

RDSP: What you need to know

A living Google

The real Rain Man is Kim Peek [born 1951], who was born with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum [ACC].