Where on the web can I learn about the disabled braving the outdoors?

http://www.outdoorsforall.org/success_stories.html

Not good websites.

People with disabilities don't want that kind of coverage. Creating a stupid "hero" image does us a disservice. And it's a feel-good bit of propaganda that lets the public ignore our problems.

If you want to help us, try some real journalism. Write about the people who cnant get a job because public transportation isn't available. Write about schools failing to provide the education the law requires. Write about someone turned down for a job they are qualified for.

But please don't write about the fake "hero" BS. You are hurting us, not helping us.

BTW: I am blind--and do/have done every one of those activities-and more. It's not remarkable, except to someone who has a shallow and stereotyped image of people with disabilities. Which you are perpetuating. If you can't--or won't --write about the realities, do us a favor and don't write about us at all.

EDIT/REPLY

I stand by what I said. Perpetuating myths is NOT helping. This falls into the same category as hearing people pushing cochlear implants becaus e beingDeaf is "such a tragedy."

A man with no legs reached the top of Mt Everest and so did a blind man, I call that the epitome of disabled braving the outdoors.

Paralympic games

Gerald Goonse Australian blind paralympic climbed summit mt everest

Micheal Mition one leg skier

The first Paraliquic to swim the english channel I think Australian story did a show on him

Extreme wheelchair sports:

http://www.apparelyzed.com/support/sport/xtreme_wh...