Hi, I'm, um, randomly showing up on your journal - I was linked here via cathexys. This post is very interesting. Your comments about it often being hard to ask are particularly well-made. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how one would go about institutionalising access for people who suffer from invisible disabilities, particularly issues such as social anxiety problems? Issues like that seem to me to be far harder to provide for in a blanket fashion so that those with similar conditions can make use of appropriate assistance as a default, similar to providing ramps for wheelchairs, etc. It seems that at some point, the ability to "out" oneself would be unavoidable since often the nature of the assistance needed is with regards to interpersonal interactions.
Again, I'm not trying to say that makes it impossible (indeed I very much hope it does not!), I'm simply genuinely curious since you obviously know a lot more about this than me, what the primary ways of institutionalising access for those with invisible disabilities/disabilities that are not directly tied to physical interactions with the world, would be? If you know of any?
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Date: 2010-07-02 06:21 pm (UTC)Again, I'm not trying to say that makes it impossible (indeed I very much hope it does not!), I'm simply genuinely curious since you obviously know a lot more about this than me, what the primary ways of institutionalising access for those with invisible disabilities/disabilities that are not directly tied to physical interactions with the world, would be? If you know of any?