I think that doing things, accomplishing things, even if its only managing to brush our teeth some mornings, is invaluable IF we recognize it and acknowledge it.

Through no fault of our own, we got hit by a bus with the license plate MS. That just our tough luck…

But its what we can DO, despite that accident of life, that defines who we are.

Knowledge is power and people with MS can be (and often are,) just as capable as the more able bodied because reading a book doesn’t require the ability to do back-flips.

After all, the WHO informs us that 10% of the world’s population is struggling with disability of one form or another.

5% of us struggle at some point or other during our lives, even if its only with a broken limb.

That only leaves 85% of the population that is perniciously, persistently and entirely able-bodied.

The problem is that, by slicing and dicing, cutting and chopping, we MSers only make up 0.0833% of the general population, instead of being recognized as a larger percentage of the 10% disabled population.

We’re not even enough to show up as a rounding error, because statistical sampling requires at least a 5% error rate to be considered significant.

We get no media coverage because the media are too busy selling cars, beer and other things.

Ergo we are ignored and become invisible.

But now with the internet, we CAN be seen and heard and read and we can be seen and heard and read ABOUT.

This effectively ends the oligopoly of the media and the tyranny of the mass market.

We must do this interview again every three months until the goal is met.