October 3, 2010.
8 th National Day for the removal of architectural barriers.
The law for the removal of architectural barriers was in 1989. On paper, everything is perfect but unfortunately since then has not changed much in practice. You know exactly who every day are forced to get angry with the world to be able to get around the city. The i-know-reckless parents who accompany their disabled children to school. I know friends that plays down to try to tear a smile to everyone costs.
Disability is the bad relationship with the environment. So the environment is more accessible than the disability decreases in a way.
Architectural barriers are like a prison ... When you find yourself in the subway and you're forced to return home because there is no one stop the stairlift is hell. A journey in vain. Endless minutes lost down there with the illusion of being able to see the sky. When a mother finds herself alone on the street pushing his son in the rain because the bus does not have the platform is sad. When you're young and you can not go to your concert singer preferred, you can not enter the store of your favorite brand, you can not go and buy a flower for your girlfriend because the store did not slide, you can not go swimming, you can not go to many other places ... you stop living . But the barriers are not only these. There are too many barriers on the Web. For example, if a word is spelled incorrectly or abbreviated the speech synthesizer to a blind person will be difficult or not be able to read the word, so the person does not understand exactly what you mean. This is ugly, but it happens often.
But then sometimes there are friends. Those who take you in my arms and do the stairs with you. Those that block the bus until they were able to climb fartici. Those that even if the clothes shop you can not get you rather wear out jeans to try. Those that takes you everywhere, overcoming any obstacle ...
But there are strangers that give you a hand, even if they are late to work. We are the fathers in the mountains you load on your shoulders and take you with them to the summit. We are simple people who are fighting for you, even if you do not know.
And then there's you, a person with disabilities who do not get you down, you do not cry but you hold on the teeth demanding your rights, but also responding to your duties. There you are at the center of everything. With a life that depends heavily on barriers architecture-and yet you are still able to smile. "
And finally there is the internet that allows you to shop at home, buying a gift for your girlfriend, to book a shuttle bus or a taxi, to check the accessibility of some structures, though until you are the place you're not sure. "
Here I wish the company could give the person with disabilities participation in cultural life, opening exhibitions and museums ... I would like for people with disabilities were guaranteed the rights of the fact that we-ordinary people-but we that they can not use due to the barriers. I would like to overcome these barriers. I wish each one of these Sunday people felt FREE. And freedom also from our own mental barriers.
Myriam
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