My physical condition has always been teased

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Alpe Foundation in the news from which the article below mentions, with pics:

http://ivcongresoalpeacondroplasia.blogspot.com/2010/10/lunes-11-de-octubre-clau\

sura-del-iv.html

The Alpe Foundation's own homepage:

http://www.fundacionalpe.org/

The article, " My physical condition has always been teased. " :

http://www.discapacitadosonline.org/condicion-fisica-objeto-burla.html

In Espanol but translated here into English:

" My physical condition has always been teased. "

Spain-The people of short stature (Achondroplasia) for their condition have

always been used as an object of laughter.

" According to Felipe Orviz, My disability is the only one laughing because,

unlike other disabilities that if they are viewed with respect as Down Syndrome,

disabled or suffering from sensory disabilities.

Felipe Orviz is less than five feet tall, just call on a payphone, or get cash

from an ATM, but does 'a funeral every day' for your situation. The man,

affected by Achondroplasia (a person of short stature), is asking to break the

barriers of architecture, but also, and most important, social. Legal Adviser to

the Alpe Foundation, attended yesterday Orviz Felipe IV International Congress

on Achondroplasia, held in Gijón, to raise awareness and research advances in

this field. Although there is no census of people affected by disability,

Asturias only 12 cases have been detected in schools.

- What progress has been made in the investigation of Achondroplasia? Right now

it's in experimental stage, we can not speak of a practical application, but the

issue of ID i to improve the quality of life, we can talk about progress. In the

homeopathic treatment is making a bid to improve the quality of life. Then in

the social sphere, we have to make the first doctoral thesis on the social

stigma of people with Achondroplasia.

" In the strictly medical field, what claim? There is a national census. No one

knows how many we are, or what we do, or what quality of life we have. We are

calling to the ministry of social policy and health to develop a nationwide

census. Then demand a performance protocol from birth the fetus, because to be a

low incidence of physical disability there is very little information between

professionals and what little there, are scattered. Already there have been

several deaths of newborns can not handle, it is not only a matter of height.

In the day to day, are socially stigmatized? Yes, my condition has been

historically used as an object of laughter. My disability is the only laughable,

as in the rest of disabilities (Down syndrome, blind, wheelchair) there is a

feeling of respect. That's because we have historically been used as buffoons

and are still recruiting, and public institutions, spaces comic bullfighting,

whose sole purpose is to make fun of a physical condition with the complacency

of society. If instead of people of short stature, were Down Syndrome, or blind.

Does the company you consent? However, there are concerned that appeal to their

freedom to carry out this work.

What we demand is that no government hires these shows in a public space, then

there is the freedom of each individual to work in private spaces.

" In your case, have suffered social rejection? Yes, when you realize your

fitness brings with more than a height problem. You have to concienciarte that

there are some things you can not do, but do not dramatize. Yes it's a bitch,

but neither should we make a funeral every day because there are worse

disabilities. "

~grady