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Win-Win Always Trumps Creating Losers
You don’t have to make people lose to win. In fact, it is usually a bad long-term strategy. — “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.“...
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(Bi) Lateral Thinking is not a Puzzle
Embed from Getty Images Is it time to debunk the abomination known as a lateral thinking puzzle? ___ In 1967 Edward de Bono introduced the notion of “lateral thinking”. Classrooms in certain fields...
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Disabled and Dating
Embed from Getty Images Communication in any relationship is the key to finding love. — You meet an attractive girl at a bar who happens to smile at you as you pass by and would like to talk to her....
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Jeison Aristizábal: The Boy Who Is Raising a Village
It is said that man can only bear so much weight upon his shoulders before things begin to feel heavy. It’s said mankind can only carry that weight for so long before our feet get stuck in the mud—and...
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From ‘Provider’ to Outsider
— I ventured out to run a simple errand, and that’s when I saw Randy holding a sign expressing a need for help. I didn’t have cash to offer but I did ask him if he would be around an hour later, and if...
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How To Support Your Disabled Loved Ones This Holiday Season
Embed from Getty Images — As much fun as the holiday season can be, it’s also exhausting, time-consuming, and hard work. It leaves a lot of people feeling fatigued. There’s so much preparation, money,...
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On Dancing While White and Disabled
— I am a white, disabled nerd, and dancing has rarely been my forte. I remember liking to dance a random assortment of frantic foot motions at weddings while I was in middle school—and relishing the...
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My Vision to Create a Safe Place for Women and Minorities to Network, Live...
— As a male feminist who loves women and as an ally of LGBT people, I have begun to learn that there is an intersectionality between all forms of negativity – racism, sexism, the disposability of men,...
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A Selfless Dad
— If there is anyone I can never forget in life, then it’s certainly my dad. Talk about love, care, availability, dependability, discipline, and nurturing a child in the right path; I can boldly say...
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Partnering To Change Policy
— This past December I walked across the street grab my mail, only to see my neighbor, shirtless, pulling his gut up and burping, “Hey, J.R.,’ as he took a swig of Busch Light. I kept trying to look...
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Disabilities, Reasonable Accommodation and the Workplace
— Let’s start off with an example. You’ve got a job you love and you’ve been there for several years. You love your work and your co-workers seem to think you’re pretty good. Life is good in the...
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Welcome To Life With a Side of Disability
— Welcome to Life With a Side of Disability. Why choose this as a name for a column? Well, it’s been my experience that too many of us with disabilities focus mainly on the disability AS our life and...
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Growing Men: from the Principal’s Office
— The first school I worked at in my early twenties was a non-profit for boys that had been removed from their public schools, primarily for their behavior and also for academic need, and placed into...
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Chatting With Brian Raymond King
— It’s good to be the King and it’s necessary to have a great mindset, so my guest for this podcast, The Mindset King, Brian Raymond King, is a great fit. Brian is the author of five books and runs a...
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Facebook Has Been Charged With Disability Related Housing Discrimination
— With Facebook, if it’s not one thing it’s another. This time the social media giant is accused of discrimination against the disabled community by not showing them housing ads and thus discriminating...
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Disability as an Attribute
— This past weekend I was attending a developmental disability advocacy training weekend and our main presenter was Dr. Patrick Schwarz, author, speaker and Chicago-land advocate for children with...
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Silence is Not Golden
— As a columnist for the Good Men Project, I get writing prompts from time to time to help spur thoughts and conversations about topics that are discussed on the Good Men Project website. Usually, I...
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The Birthday Party
— Yesterday I ran across a story about an autistic boy in Idaho who invited quite a few people to his ninth birthday party, only to find out that he had one RSVP. The boy’s mother, heartbroken. Posted...
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The Frequent Scamming of Today’s Developmentally Disabled
— Every day thousands of people fall prey to scams of all kinds. Many of us are wise enough to see through the charades, but a lot of us don’t. It’s not that we’re stupid, ignorant, or anything like...
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Care Is No Longer Personal, It’s Political
By Eva Kittay America is sick, broke, and hurting. The recent two National Conventions had different menus on offer to satisfy a crisis-ridden nation. But the Democratic Convention tried something...
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