More disability

Back in the middle of November, I noticed a young lady with poor hearing and worse sight who wanted to become a doctor. So I was interested to read in the course of the matinal brown bread and cheese this morning, in yesterday's Guardian, of another lady, one Haben Girma, described as deafblind, on course to become a lawyer. In the meantime, she is big on the lecture circuit. See reference 2.

First thought was that she must be enormously talented in other ways, to have overcome her disabilities.

Second thought was that wanting to be a lawyer was perhaps a more sensible ambition than wanting to be a doctor.

Third thought was that, maybe, there will be a falling back to earth, when her media celebration has run its course. Let us hope that there is not too big a bump. A thought that I had already had in connection with a picture of Greta Thunberg looking a bit tired and fed up in a train out of Madrid.

Fourth thought was that this lady has probably soaked up a lot of resources. Including those of the manager of the canteen noticed in the Guardian who had to start making deafblind accessible menus available. But what about all the people with less photogenic disabilities who moulder away in cash-strapped residential homes? Is her native California any better in this regard than England?

PS: two dream fragments from last night. First, we seemed to have moved into a small house, possibly a house for affordables, with a back garden about five yards square, covered with short, neat grass and surrounded by six feet high lapboard panels. I am very keen to plant some shrubs, possibly an open square of (shade tolerant) yew, to brighten things up, but BH seems keen to retain the grass as it is. Second, I seemed to have got into a muddle about charging up my telephone. None of the available cables and plugs seem to be right. Eventually I cobble something together with one of those four way power extension cables, a desktop computer and sundry adaptors, plugs and cables. All very unsatisfactory. All very worrying. No idea where any of this came from.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-ambitions-of-disabled.html.

Reference 2: https://habengirma.com/.