Write What You Know

In the last year, I decided to resurrect my Blogger site & renamed it "Hard Of Hearing Problems".

Afterwards, I thought maybe I should have named it something else, perhaps a more general type of blog; then I realized no - I think I did it right this time.

I often hear people say, "Write what you know". I am writing from a place I know intimately - as a disabled person trying to make their way in an ableist world. It may not be great prose, but it's honest.

The Bad Old Days

 

When someone says they want "to bring the old ways back"; that's your warning. They have nothing new to offer. Now is not the time to be complacent, or scared.

We must SPEAK UP against the entitled few who deem themselves qualified to dictate to the common people what is right and wrong. They are scared of becoming extinct, so they create artificial conditions & lament their gilded place in society as insufficient, then enact legislation to ensure their survival. It doesn't have to be this way.

Chef Darren?

 

UPDATE: I've seen a job counsellor. Her advice to me was to update my resume and shop it with that fact: I don't have experience, but I'm willing to learn. It's been 2 years since I've been standing on my feet, so perhaps part time is logical for now.

You don't have to be hearing to be a chef/cook. Stranger things have happened. After Mum passed away, I realized I'm comfortable in a kitchen. I've gotta be good for something, right?

Choices

 

"Happy Holidays"

If somebody gives you guff for offering "Happy Holidays", then say "Fine, have a terrible one," because I can't assume to know everything about everybody.