Why are disabled still second class?

How come disabled people are still second class people? 

Just now in Great Britain politic decided to cut the weekly money transfer to help survive the dayly life, with 30 Pounds. 

In Germany the AfD, a fashist party, now being more and more part of politic has in its agenda the cut of nearly all help for disabled people and want them also in prison if they are hard to handle like when they have a mental illness. 

Why is it that people think you must be stupid or not healthy in your mind when it is about people with MS and other body diseases or when they sit in a wheelchair because they maybe had an accident? Why is there still so less understanding about dementia?

I know long time ago, like hundred years ago, human kind did not knew better, but today, we should. Especially in the western world. How many science do you need to believe that? How many great examples do you need? I mean take Beethoven, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, John Nash or Hawking.... and all those around you... you mostly don't see or only on youtube maybe.

Why then so many think a disabled man can't be part of society? Why do so many think they can't work or help or even teach us a thing or two?

They are not lazy, they do not need some extra, they don't want something special, they just want the same as you. A life, respect and being part of all of us. 

Even when they need a lot of help, they help us to learn much about ourself. To be calm, to trust, to see and understand, to feel and not forget how vulnerable we are and that sometimes those "sick" people are stronger then the healthy one.  

Most of those disabled people would like to live on their own and have enough money so the need for extra help would be not necessary. But as it is because they are second hand people, they have less chances to learn proberly, to work the way they could and so they earn as less as possible. 

I remember very well that in the GDR (East Germany) disabled people got not many jobs to do. A human who had hearing problems got the choice of 20 different jobs and all but one was to work at a machine and do each day the same two task. 

If you could only understand that they can more then you let them, they would give. 

Yes there are those who will always be in need of someone to watch over them. 

But we are humans. What makes us better if we do not cherish our weak parts. We are all worth the same. We should all know that but we don't. 

I believe it is our duty to help the disabled people as a society. Then we would also watch our language more as we often use words wich discriminate the disbabled, as those words classify them worth less, sometimes worth nothing. 

Isn't it all a point of view? A man who is heard of hearing can work as good as you do, maybe even better, but that human is not at all automatically stupid, just because he hears less. A mental ill can produce dishes good as anyone else. Why then give them not a chance? Why do we already give the disabled children the feeling of being an outsider, not much worth and give them a much lesser chance? Yes, it all starts there. 

I am not saying we should take them as china and do all to compromise the illness. I believe that disabled people have to also go into the crowd and try to come in (not meaning: fit it). 

As a human hard of hearing by myself I know I can try to tell people to speak more clearly, or just more slow, but I know in the everyday life I have to expect that they don't do, as simple many forget, so I have to find a way to connect and if needed I must tell them, must please them to say things again or different. 

Disabled people are not helpless, if you teach them that they can do more then they believed.  

I say this as many parents of disabled children are a reason why they are quite helpless alone. My mother always thought me to do the things by myself. She sad, if you want it, then go ahead, find a way, just do. If you fail after all, then I can take a look and maybe help out. 

I am very grateful for that.

And by the way, a disabled person may be strong but if someone tells us in a negative way or just in fun why we can't what we can't, it hurts. 

It's like when I don't understand a second or third time, I get to hear like- what's wrong, are you hearing badder, is your aid off... but I simple do not understand sometimes and it's not my fault and so yes it hurts, it's a weak part as I feel disqualified, thought I know people don't mean that rude or mean. But it hurts.

That's the same with people who have dementia. They get hurt when you talk to them that way and when you believe they don't want to work with you, but the truth is, they simply can't, thought they try and are ashame in the same time. 

Feeling of being a second class is never a nice feeling and many should know that, but forget that when it is about disabled people. Sadly, for many it seems a fact that disabled means hopeless, just work and a thing you want to avoid seeing, as it shows you (unaware of that fact are the most) that you could be that person, it can be your future. 

No wonder many are so surprised if it happend to them and ask themself- why me?! But that question comes because it is seen as something negative. 

So put a little love in your heart and read about disabled people, get to know them, ask them about their lifes, what they feel, want and can. Help them to achieve as much as possible and make them be part of us. Watch your words and remember we are humans, we can help,  we know, we learn, we can understand, a gift only we humans have.. so let's use it!

LOVE & LIGHT

Fukushima

Five years ago Japan got it's super crisis. Three times. The strongest earthquake of its history, a ten meter high Tsunami and because of this the catastrophic incident the destroy of the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi.

Five years later and things are all but done and over.

Over 2000 deads in results of the disaster till today. 

In the Fukushima City the radiation exposure is still much higher then before. 

2010 it was 0,04 mikrovisert per hour. After the breakdown it went up to 2,74 in 2011 and is today on the level of 0,20. Munich has 0,12 these days, just to have something to compare.

After all 164 200 people had to be evacuated. Still about 99 800 cannot go back and most of them will never do in their lifetime. 

The structure of families have changed as a result too. Today around that whole area are living 14% less children, but 9% more old people. 

Of course another result is that tourist stay away. Not only around the Fukushima area (-65% less tourists). In all of Japan it was felt a -35% downfall of numbers. Thought these days it is better again and tourists are coming back. 

One of the biggest problems is that the agriculture lost a lot of potential and trust and of course fishing companies got into trouble. And as we remember, Tesco the owner told us 2013 that 300 metric tons radioactive contaminated water is going down the river into the ocean, each day and still this is going on. 

Depite the closing of the last active nuclear power reactor in Japan in 2012, they decided to open them again and in 2015 three are producing again, thought the electricity price went up 34 % compared to the time before the catasthrophe happend. 

Scary it is when we think about that. But another truth is, politic has help to create this and money is still the reason for all this and more. 

The fishes in the ocean have now a higher radiation exposure as it is healthy for them and us and animlas around Japan and mostly those who live in the water have been damaged in their Genetic but we are still discovering the results of long time. 

Have we learned about this? No we haven't. Money makes the world go round and so media have not spoken much about that, especially in the United states. While in Europe we got to know about that far earlier and more the truth about the whole thing, though Tesco the owner waited quite a very long time before the official reaction took place. As always it was and is a -hide all possible things- game.

May we be remind tomorrow and after that this can happen again and be worse and we already have been near that a several time since. Do we need that risk? Is that future?

I will also send out my thoughts for those who died and those who have been left over to stay alive and find a new way to survive and get on with life. 

Love & Light

International womens day...

Thinking about that day always leaves me to memories how we did celebrate when I was a child. I am grown in the GDR, which does not exist anymore. There each 8. march was an important day and not the mothers day. The ideology has it that all are equal, but reality was different. Equality was for sure better then in the other countries, but women had not been equal to man and never got the chance to the highes position in a job. They got a day of in each month for housecleaning and things like that, but never did the man. 

But as a child you don't see that as clear and do what your teacher says to surprise your mother and other women with gifts. Mostly flower, mostly the red carnations, as they has not been another choice to be true. Some times we made things like oven cloths or similar, thought they have been not that nice and I am grateful all those women never showed this to us, always the smile, always a thank you. They knew far to well that children don't understand the need of the celebration of womens day, what it really meant. 

Now I know and wonder. What do we celebrate? Did we come far? Did we succeed? Do we have equality? Women can vote in many countries but not in all. Women are allowed to work and learn in many countries but not in all. Women are treaten as same is still in no country the case, only with some people. Women earn the same salary as man- no, in no country is this the case. Yes, in some jobs they do and also bit more but even the women stars fail to get equality.

Women can choose to have children is also something which is only a reality in some countries. 

But it did get better, just in very small steps. 

Man help women with the children. Mostly not the case, just in some countries with democracy. It is still the duty of a women to care for children, but then in some countries where the sharia law is the case, women have no right after the marriage and after a divorce about themself, their children or over money. They are second class people. 

It is still the case that women cannot wear the cloths they want as man say they are the victim of womens sexuality when they stand alone on the street, when they show their beautyful face, when they wear short cloths. They are victimes and therfrore must and cannot let it be to rape women, to beat women, to hate women, to torment them. That's why they have to wear as much untill you see only a tend over them and even then they are like a wild animal for many man if they travel alone. 

Crazy.. and sad and...

It is still more important how you look as a girl and women than what you do, what you know and how you can be part of this wonderful world. 

But the look is a reason for man to treat them without respect, no matter what they do. Women do provoke with their look they say but it is man who cannot show respect and see that they are humans like them. Still if a women raise her voice she is seen as a bitch. If the women is young, she must be stupid. If the women is older but refused to act like that, she gets bashed and bullied. If a women these days enjoys sex, she is a tramp and if she refuse - she is frigid. And if a women loves a women she just has not found the "right" man. 

Women are often working these day, but if they expect community care for children, they are called selfish, even in Germany. Maybe some man take off a year for the new born, but that is seldom. 

If women still stands up for their rights they get beaten, called unfeminine and aggressive and even badder. But if they don't stand up for themself they are called weak and stupid and all is their own fault. 

The play with those make them feel guilty is against women, when they do what they want and can, when they show it is all possible what they think and need, is a long and wrong play. 

So man have to learn a lot, no- mankind has to learn a lot. Equality comes not just like that. Mothers and fathers have to teach their boys and girls about equality. Society has to avoid clichés like girl is pink and boy is blue. 

Yes I know parents who try really their best to give their kids the choice they feel they want to make and they really try to teach their children, that they can do whatever they like as long all gets respect. They even try to make the childrens room neutral or just colorful but avoid clichés. But it is hard when uncle and grandmother lives up to the cliché, even when the parents have told them to let this be. But nevertheless mothers and fathers, teachers of each gender have to tell, have to teach the children, that all are equal and should be treaten alike and that empathy and love and helping each other is the right way. 

We can only change the way we treat us when we start changing ourself and let our children grow in/ with the right mind. All man have to respect women, but all women too. 

Equality does not mean to make it likewise, it means all have the same chance and possibility. It means not to tell each other that someone is weak because of its sex, gender, if the person has breasts or of the sexuality or the knowledge they have. 

Yes it is about power that the rights are still not the way it should be, that women are worth less and have harder to get education. Politic is one reason, religion is another one, the wanting of seeings things just black and white as the world is more and multidimentional and complex- is another one. 

They therefore say that ecomomy will break if women gets payed the same, which is untrue. And yes, a war is more easy to have with stupid people and with fear it is easier to lead people. It is also easier to tell them what they want so they can keep the power and make sure they don't ask, don't see, don't realize the truth behind. 

We do not celebrate the success, but we have to take this day as a reminder. A reminder that it is our choice with words and the way we act. Just take a look at yourself. How you call women, how you treat them and how you think about them. 

Love & Light