I got an email from Simon this morning in reply to my last blog entry but one. I need to think over what he said, and the implications of it. I’m not sure if I agree with all that he says, but he does make some good points, so I think, for the sake of fairness, I’ll post hiss reply in full:

”I do not agree with you and I do think you are being far too obsessive. We have people with minor impairments, like depression, claiming benefits without taking responsibilities. When people have rights, they have responsibilities. For example, why are you not in paid employment assuming you are not? every government has good and bad policies but non-disabled but impaired people can no longer treat disability as free candy in a sweet shop and cry foul when they are to take responsibility everyone else has to as citizens. Stop getting personal and start thinking about the real issues there and avoid this romanic view of disability as only a small percentage of disabled people have significant needs.”’ controversial stuff indeed