Is Heather McCartney disabled?

dunkman
dunkman Posts: 19,646
edited February 2007 in A Moving Train
well she is a registered disabled person and therefore has a blue badge on her car(s) that enables her to use disabled parking zones...

fair enough so far...

but she is soon to appear on the US version of Strictly Come Dancing (celebrity people do ball dancing/tango/salsa/etc) and so i believe a disabled group near London are asking for her to have her disabled badge revoked.



Sir Paul McCartney's estranged wife Heather Mills' forthcoming appearance on "Dancing with the Stars" has angered a disabled group in her native Britain, which claims her ability to dance means she is able-bodied.

Mills wears a prosthetic limb after she lost her left leg below the knee following a 1993 road accident in London.

After the charity campaigner confirmed she would be a contestant on the show next month, the Federation of Disabled People claims she has no right to use the blue disabled badge on her Mercedes car, which gives users priority parking in public places and in car parks.

The Federation's spokesperson Kathy Gordon says, "Clearly she has mobility so she should refrain from using the badge. It's not fair on other disabled people."
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    I just hope Clyde the Glide Dunks on her Ass! :D
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    South of Seattle wrote:
    I just hope Clyde the Glide Dunks on her Ass! :D

    i have no idea what that means... but you used my name in a sentence so have a gold star
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    I don't like the word "disabled". To me it implies that the person is essentially in a coma. If they can get out, drive and be mobile, they aren't disabled in my book. I think the term "handicapped" is better.
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    dunkman wrote:
    i have no idea what that means... but you used my name in a sentence so have a gold star
    He's a basketball player that is on the show as well. One of my favorites of time.
    NERDS!
  • moeaholic
    moeaholic Posts: 535
    know1 wrote:
    I don't like the word "disabled". To me it implies that the person is essentially in a coma. If they can get out, drive and be mobile, they aren't disabled in my book. I think the term "handicapped" is better.

    the dude: "is this lebowski?"
    brandt: "yes, it is."
    the dude: "oh, so he's a cripple?"
    brandt: "uhh...mr. lebowski is, um....disabled, yes."

    as far as the topic of this thread...give me a break. they want to take her parking privileges away because she's dancing? are they implying that someone with a disability (or handicapped) can't dance?
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    how about we take motorized carts and close spaces away from morbidly obese people at the supermarket would that be better?
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    know1 wrote:
    I don't like the word "disabled". To me it implies that the person is essentially in a coma. If they can get out, drive and be mobile, they aren't disabled in my book. I think the term "handicapped" is better.

    handicapped to me seems derogatory...

    i wonder what the 'correct' term is?
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    dunkman wrote:
    handicapped to me seems derogatory...

    i wonder what the 'correct' term is?
    I'd say "physically challenged" is the appropriate term.
  • exhausted
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    "can you please describe how your are... differently abled?"
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    how about we take motorized carts and close spaces away from morbidly obese people at the supermarket would that be better?
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  • Arctangent
    Arctangent Posts: 614
    know1 wrote:
    I don't like the word "disabled". To me it implies that the person is essentially in a coma. If they can get out, drive and be mobile, they aren't disabled in my book. I think the term "handicapped" is better.

    you are not allowed to use the term handicapped in the uk now. apparently its not politically correct.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jeanwah wrote:
    I'd say "physically challenged" is the appropriate term.

    its disabled.

    i got that from the British Council of Disabled People themselves... if they use, we should :)

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=disabled&meta=
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    moeaholic wrote:
    as far as the topic of this thread...give me a break. they want to take her parking privileges away because she's dancing? are they implying that someone with a disability (or handicapped) can't dance?


    when you see how she dances then you'll wonder what disability she has... apparently the girl can fucking move!!!!

    i think thats where they are coming from!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Arctangent wrote:
    you are not allowed to use the term handicapped in the uk now. apparently its not politically correct.


    See, to me the term "disabled" would be far less politically correct. It implies you can't do anything.
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    know1 wrote:
    See, to me the term "disabled" would be far less politically correct. It implies you can't do anything.
    I agree. I don't like it at all. Physically Challenged wouldn't be such a hard blow, compared to "disabled".
  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,577
    The term that you are supposed to use now is "handicapable."
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Don't people have something better to worry about than someone who is missing half a leg getting a good parking spot?
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I don't know what being disabled entitles you to in the UK. Here it's pretty much all about the parking spaces, and I can certainly see how people with genuine disabilities would get pissed off seeing someone capable of competition dancing taking the primo spot right next to the door. There have been days over the past year when I've had to stop and rest halfway across the garage, and I don't have a disabled parking pass .... I have to admit, I'd have been a little ticked off if I'd seen someone hopping out of their car in one of those spaces after seeing them dancing on TV last night.

    As the the terminology ... "handicapped" is defined as "having a physical or mental disability," so I don't see what the big deal is there. If people with disabilities prefer to be called disabled, then "disabled" they are.
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    hippiemom wrote:
    As the the terminology ... "handicapped" is defined as "having a physical or mental disability," so I don't see what the big deal is there. If people with disabilities prefer to be called disabled, then "disabled" they are.
    With all due respect, I disagree with the label because my daughter is considered disabled because she has Down syndrome. She is not physically disabled; just developmentally. She is very "abled" in my opinion and with anyone else who knows her. :)
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Jeanwah wrote:
    With all due respect, I disagree with the label because my daughter is considered disabled because she has Down syndrome. She is not physically disabled; just developmentally. She is very "abled" in my opinion and with anyone else who knows her. :)
    I don't think of anyone who is disabled as being TOTALLY disabled, and I don't think many people do. My mom can't walk, but she can do many other remarkable things ... she has a disability in the walking department, that's all.

    I don't know, I've never been one to get too caught up in semantics. When I'm disabled, I refer to myself as a cripple or gimp. Your daughter is what she is, the word doesn't change anything. Anyone who knows her knows that, and who really cares about everyone else?
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