Loading ...Yesterday I received an email through this site, and whilst I don’t usually do this sort of thing, I was so astounded at its content I just had to share it with you. For privacy reasons, I’ll omit the sender’s name, email address etc. Amazing.
Hi ‘Bright’ (Red.. get it?)
um, no?
Do you speak normally, or do you have a speech impedament? Doesn’t matter either way, I just wondered, tryin to imagine it, I guess.
You look like a normal human being, on the front cover of ‘RISE’, to me, anyhow, you don’t even look like you have CP! The wheelchair gives it away, that you have no control over your limbs, but that’s about it.
.. What! I look like a ‘normal human being’? Haha, gee thanks! And ‘no control over your limbs’? Have you ever met anyone in a wheelchair?!
Now she tells me off for using the word ’stupidest’ in an email.. wtf.
Red, there is no such word as ’stupid-est’, its either stupid or ‘the most stupid’, this sort of correction comes from my training as a [removed profession], in Tauranga, can’t help correcting people, I do it most days! Never take offence with this, because I do it, to HELP not to hinder, and not to put you down, either!
And here’s my favourite bit…
You know something else? You punctuate really well! I am impressed, and you seem to know how to say things, and, you can spell!
… speechless.
24 responses so far ↓
1 Jess // May 20, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Hahaha, is this person for real?!
“You can spell!” LOL
2 Cassi // May 20, 2009 at 3:10 pm
HAHA, you should write back and say “tell me the definition of NORMAL”, there is NO SUCH THING as able bodied people have disabilities to ie ignorance!.
Ask her also what does a person with CP meant to look like?
3 Caren // May 20, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Red, dont worry, having meet you i can tell every one you are as “normal” as the next person. lol A wonderful guy.
4 Honor Kavanagh // May 20, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I seriously don’t know whether to laugh or cry! In any case, it’s a speech ‘impediment’, not a speech ‘impedament’. I also spotted a few other mistakes in punctuation in this e-mail. So she needs to brush up a little on her own skills in this department, especially if she’s always correcting others on theirs. Three words come to mind; “glass”, “houses”, and “stones”.
Keep up the good work, Red.
5 Leon // May 21, 2009 at 10:30 pm
It seems that she doesn’t own a dictionary.
My Mac comes with one for free.
stupid |ˌstjuːpɪd|
adjective ( -pider, -pidest)
6 Red // May 21, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Haha, well said, Leon!
7 Kim // May 22, 2009 at 11:31 am
And then there’s the ‘tryin’ instead of ‘trying’. She should learn how to spell before giving English lessons to anyone else.
8 Susan // May 22, 2009 at 11:44 am
RED
I am the one who wrote that email. I started out really well with you, and now it seems I am the one who has put her foot in it, so to speak.
I highly regret, having made any comments, which have obviously come across very badly and not the way they were meant to have been taken. I can see where I have gone wrong with it all, and if it is ok with you, rather than type all of this, could I please ring you and profusley apologize for my erant comments.?People seem to misunderstand my good intentions, and I am in no way perfect in my own spelling. Yep, there were a few, and yes, I have a dictionary, and yes, I am for real, I can also see that your responders are not hapopy with what I wrote either, and now, neither am I!If had only re-read it, and realised, that it would be taken the way it has been. I thought the ‘Bright Red’ part, you would get anyway, I was just having a joke, but not at your expense.
I am truly sorry that it has been put on the webpage for all to see, but now that it has, I have also learned something, take a person for just who they have. I complimented you on how ‘normal’ you look, its a very sensitive subject, but I WAS trying to tell you, you look like everyone else! Now PLEASE allow me to give you a call and get this thing right, Please?
Thanks Red, and I am genuinely sorry.
Susan
9 Susan // May 22, 2009 at 11:47 am
Red,
I have just re-read this email, and I can see I still have a few spelling errors that I can’t alter, I hope you are having an awesome day, and I think I need a brandy or a beer, or at the very least a coffee, share it with you and tell you again, in person, that I am sorry.
Susan
10 Susan // May 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm
To all resonders
Last week, I received a really nice email from Red, telling me, that the contents of my first email, made his week. That to me, was awesome., that I made Red’s week. Now that I have achieved the opposite, I just wanted to say, I want to get it right, so that I can support Red, and his friends, with whatever is happening out there for people who are disabled. I am really hoping, that whatever else I write doesn’t upset anyone, from now on and I haven’t got a defiinition of normal, because no matter who you are, we are all normal as anyone else.
Thanks
Susan
11 Brent // May 23, 2009 at 12:52 pm
HA! wata noooob
12 Cassi // May 25, 2009 at 11:09 am
Good on ya Susan!
13 Susan // May 25, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Cassi!
Thank you, so much, for your positive feedback.
I have been trying to get in contact with Red to make amends-but its not happening, ok, I might be called a ‘nooob’ by ‘Brent’, but you, Cassi, can see a different side to my feelings, I am in no way perfect, spelling mistakes and all, thank goodness, someone like Cassi, understands me. Thank you. I sincerely hope Cassi, has an awesome day!
Warmest regards
Susan
14 Susan // May 25, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I think Red Nicholson Rocks!
He was the one who set up this awesome website, he is the one who campaigns for those who have to fight for their rights in this shared world.
He is the one who inspired me in the first place, and I am still inspired by him, despite all my faults and he is still welcome for a cuppa, at our place, if he ever visits Tauranga.
Cheers
Susan
15 k // May 27, 2009 at 10:15 pm
haha! is this for real???no actually?
wow susans pretty er intense huh. hmm maybe by ‘normal’ she was trying to say hot. i’d run for the hills if i were you Red!
16 kat // May 27, 2009 at 10:17 pm
love the way she felt the need to explain her oh so brilliant ‘bright red’ joke.
17 Barbz // May 31, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Hey Susan,
If I were you, I would stop, you foot is so far in your mouth already.
Personally, I don’t suffer from insanity I enjoy every minute of it.
It is really interesting how people expect a person with a disability to be. I rocked up to a bunch of nursing students to talk about mental illness last month and I asked them straight out, how many of them expected me to turn up in a chair. No one had thought about it but they were surprised.
People don’t expect madpeople to have disabilities, or is that people with disabilities have madness.
I suppose my best message to Susan is never assume, it makes an Ass /u/me
Cheers
Barbz
18 Cassi // Jun 3, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Hey guys at least Susan apologised (sic) and felt she had to explain herself, through this she has admitted ignorance and is willing to LEARN from us!, hive her a break will ya!.
19 shark // Jun 4, 2009 at 5:19 pm
wow that is funny lol!!
wat a nooob susan
20 Mr BRMBRM // Jun 13, 2009 at 5:08 pm
To be honest, most people consider “normal” to be just like the average which is two working arms and legs and a brain to pretty well keep all the bits in between in control. If I said someone looked really average though, they would be probably offended because most people want to be something above average.
Yes, it was funny to read and no, Susan didn’t mean anything derogatory by it and has even attempted to apologise on a number of occasions. Sometimes we can be a bit precious and overly PC. If she had done it on purpose, haul her over the coals but as it was unintentional, give her a break.
As for the drink Susan, is it just open to Red or were we all invited because some of us like to partake of the amber liquid just as much as you “average” people do too. LOL. Actually, have we ever all had a drinks evening? Could be something to think about perhaps?
21 Emma Schoombie // Jun 19, 2009 at 12:14 am
Ohhh Susan move on….Unfortunately first (or in your case, second) impressions last and you can’t make everybody like you. You may also want to note that your over-enthusiasm to ‘meet at your place for a cuppa’ etc could be construed as slightly patronizing. What really did you have in common to begin with, apart from your interest in Red being both disabled and ‘normal’? Was he some sort of novelty?
22 jax // Sep 7, 2009 at 4:03 pm
this is the stupidest. lol.
23 joni // Sep 25, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Well … regardless of the many differences, whether ethnicity, cultural, intellectual or physical, one things for sure …. nasty comes in all shapes and sizes - some people need to forgive and others need to forget … on both sides of the fence.
24 Cassi // Jan 5, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Joni, you are so right. We are all the same, feelings ect and that includes moods, emotions and opinions no matter who we are, some of us really need to lay off or back off….Once again Susan, well done for apologising and explaining yourself, you are one awesome person and I hope you have an awesome day.
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