Your right to a hearing

Subject: Your right to a hearing.

The lives we lead are full of assumptions. We assume that we will have food on the table when we get hungry. We assume we will have a secure comfortable sleep at the end of the day. We assume that when the need arises we will be able to find a toilet to release our bodily functions. But what if these assumptions are not fulfilled and there is no food, no bed and no way to carry out our toilet function in anything close to dignity.
We have travelled a long way from the days when disabled people were left to fend for themselves. I once in a previous blog questioned the imposition on a builder to provide a lift just for disabled people if and when a disabled person chose to apply for a job within this building. My argument was that 'lifts' are horrendously expensive and that it was reasonable to expect a disabled person to be content with working at ground floor level. Life is full of inequality and perhaps we should tackle 'private schooling' as a source of life long disadvantage before we got carried away by providing lifts.
This morning one has again been given an insight into the problems of being disabled.
The lack of disabled toilets both in the work place, places of entertainment such as the theatre and on trains where we spend so much time cramped up with other people.
The dramatic stories of disabled people wetting themselves on a journey to work when the disabled toilet wasn't working only sought to remind us of how a disabled person is so reliant on everything working once they venture out from the security of their home.

Of course as able bodied people we also can remember being caught out by a public toilet not working when we desperately needed it. The need to preempt being caught out on your way to work in traffic necessitates a call to the loo before you go out but even in such dire occasions one could always park and flee the car into the bushes. 

Not so the wheelchair bound invalid who's very life is encapsulated in what they can and can't do from their chair.
Live is full of discrepancy. We are all different and claim our difference has priority. The give and take depends on our strength and skill to garner interest and become a collective with one voice. Social media and the input the internet has on our consciousness is now garnered by bodies representing the inequality to push their case and it is inevitable, with limited funds some people are going to lose out.
And so the clamour to make sure it's not me who is left behind increases. The white working class boy, the male in a parental battle for the right to see their children, the women who live under the Patriarchal rule of a medieval religion, of women who wish to enhance their figures and men their sexual prowess in bed.
Everyone has a claim, each secure in their "rights" to a hearing.