3:22am February 16, 2015

➸ The primary tool for the enforcement of help is...

“My Contaminated Smile” by Joe Ehman, from Mouth Magazine.  This is a guy who the MDA made “Person of the Year”.  He went to Mouth Magazine intending to striaghten them out about the MDA.  They didn’t have much time so they dropped a bunch of papers in his lap. He read them all.   When he started asking too many questions, they stripped him of his Person of the Year status.

But the above-linked post isn’t about that.  it’s about that smile that helping professionals cultivate, and what’s behind it.  I could’ve told you what’s behind a lot of it (I can sense disgust, revulsion, impatience, condescension, and “I don’t really like disabled people but I wanted the job…” a mile away).  But he tells it better, because back when he was nondisabled he worked in ahospital and used The Smile all the time.

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