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Tweeting disability: a birthday, disabled jokes, noisy walking

Emma Emma | 16:15 UK time, Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Four twitter users get straight to the heart of disability life, 140 little characters at a time.

Too many comics use disablist insults without thinking twice, when they wouldn't use racist or sexist ones. Worth thinking about.


Happy Birthday #NHS - without you I'd be dead from childhood infections, or now wouldn't have the treatments I need for #MS and other things
, commenting on the fact that the National Health Service is 63 years old today.

Most thrilling find so far archiving old tapes, trial of audio describe porn from 2000
blind journalist.

Late for one of my bestfriends wedding watching from outside :) cause I walk way too loud to sneak in.
, US comedian with cerebral palsy

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