I only heard about it because I happened to read sci.space.news that day. ;)
I thought I would share it here & in the ABLED echo.

I have noticed similar situations to what you describe also.

Mike

>         Interesting... as a Canadian, I hadn't heard of this event.  I think
>there is a need for "Awareness Days" although they may seem
rather contrived.
>Awhile ago one of our correspondents in SURVIVOR mentioned, for example, that
>when she went shopping with her husband she'd be asked what he wanted.  As it
>happens, he uses a wheelchair.  He also has a university degree & earns sixty
>thousand dollars a year... but people make assumptions because he can't walk.
>They did the same when Nora broke her ankle too.  People who knew her, people
>who used to talk to her directly, would talk over her head... people who used
>to hand her the menu in a restaurant & who'd had ample opportunity to see her
>reading it "forgot" when she was in a wheelchair.  I felt
like saying "Excuse
>me, it's her ankle that's broken... her brain works fine!" 
Instead, I smiled
>sweetly & responded with "Why don't you ask her?" or
"Could Nora have a menu,
>please?" just as our friend did.  I understand Franklin Roosevelt
didn't want
>to be photographed below the waist, BTW, because others might think he wasn't
>capable of running the country.  That's history now, but I can relate.  A lot
>of consciousness-raising occurs via personal relationships, anyway....    :-)

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