Denial of emotional needs to people with handicaps

Much work today focuses on the issue of accessibility for those with a physical handicap of chronic disease. While this is necessary and just, its solution only makes more visible what society as a whole has done and needs to correct, in its dealing with people who have handicaps. As a result of our collective past, those of us with a disability spend much of our time in a continuing effort to reclaim what we have lost - the right to act sexy, get angry, be vulnerable, and have possibilities. While these do not seem like the kinds of things that one person can give to another, they are needs whose satisfaction the rest of society has helped impede and deny.