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Dearest Pink,

I know you are in Australia at the moment and in Sydney again soon. Please agree to have an interview with me for this blog. Here are the reasons I would love to interview you:

If you could take 6 months off work (or however it is you spend your life) where would you go?

1st Month – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I would stay at The Grand Mercure in the centre of town. Their beds have the best doonas and amongst the best wheelchair accessible bathrooms. I’d spend my time just wandering around, going to gigs, pubs and talking to interesting strangers. Oh, and having manicures and pedicures.

Most of us have had the experience of an able-bodied person thinking that they are ‘better’ than us as they are able-bodied and we are not. But what about times where you are in the company of someone who has the same condition as you, only they can walk and you can’t. What if, because of this, they assume they are better than you?

I know it sounds weird and uncomfortable. It sounds like some new lame form of discrimination and, well, I’m thinking that it could well be.

‘You’re so normal for a disabled person. You’re still pretty.’

I’m sure I’m not the only person who encounters such backhanded comments. How I deal with them is dependent upon the situation.