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The Independent Living Movement I I will start off by informing you that there is no real difference between the words “disabled” and “handicapped,” except for the linguistic ones. They both refer to physically challenged people, who often need special living accommodations. The Independent Living Movement II What is the Independent Living Movement in Seattle, WA, the USA about? It and the aspects of it with which I was involved have changed, somewhat, from what I saw when there at Center Park. The Physically Challenged I Do you think if you knew your life was short, you would bother to help others? At the most, your place would not be there - ere long. If such “places” were even available, as their beds are often full, you personally might be forced back into whatever disabled and for the handicapped institutions you had left behind, to try for independent living at Center Park. How would you know if it would be worthwhile to live or work there? The Physically Challenged II I and my husband once worked as nurse aides at the first apartment building in the nation built specifically for people in wheelchairs, Center Park, which shares the same initials as cerebral palsy, one of the world’s most common severe physical disabilities. Chief Seattle of the Independent Living Movement Center Park of Seattle, Washington, USA, was founded by one Ida May Daly, who had a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, and while dying of this debilitating illness - she managed to get enough public and private donations to buy a square block of land near downtown Seattle and go set it up so that certain people would have a place to actually live, instead of one to die. She didn’t like what institutionalized living does to people in reality, and how most institutions preach an afterlife - involving how you have to die to achieve it. Chief Sealth and the Independent Living Movement OUR Center Park of the City of Seattle, named after local Native American leader Chief Sealth, was founded by “Our Lady” Ida May Daly. This wheelchair using soul had a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, or MS. While dying of this devastating illness, she procured enough public and private donations to buy a large square city block of land. It was located in an undervalued black and Catholic neighborhood five miles south of downtown metropolitan Seattle.

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