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What is it with our society and the way it treats people with disabilities? The stories that I have heard lately – from the murder (by law enforcement) of Ethan Saylor, a man with down syndrome, to the ‘pink letter” sent to the family of an autistic teenager urging them to have him euthanized – have sent my mind reeling and have made me physically ill. The message being pounded into my soul is that the lives of people with disabilities are somehow not as worthy as the lives of non-disabled folks.

Hello America.
You know what really grinds my gears?
A lot of things. A lot.Because I wasn’t granted the fee I would have charged to list everything that grinds my gears in one sitting. And because anyone who knows me knows I have an infamous problem with authority. So we’ve decided to break it down to ten for starters.