Three Links This Week

Links to three articles shared in this week’s NCCI social media. You can visit NCCI on Facebook and Twitter at the following links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ncciplattsburgh/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCCIPlatts

This week - July 7-13, 2018:

1. Perspective | Plastic straw bans are the latest policy to forget the disability community

Karen Hitzelberger, Washington Post - July 12, 2018

A disability blogger writes in the Washington Post about why the movement to ban plastic straws is more than just a bad policy for disabled people, but kind of an outrage.

2. Disabled Kids “Ruin Society”, Mother Told While Visiting Zoo with her Autistic Son

Sarah Levis, The Girl With The Cane - July 3, 2018

Another disability blogger from Canada takes on a deceptively simple topic … people who are openly mean to disabled people in public … and explains how there is more to it than just rudeness.

3. Thinking About Rethinking Comedy

Reid Davenport, Through My Lens - July 12, 2018

A disabled comedy reflects on what it means as a disabled person to have a “sense of humor” about your disability. Why do we make self-deprecating jokes? Are they social ice-breakers, or self-sabotage? Maybe a little of both.