Jury Duty
http://berkeleyscot.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/jury-duty/
I’d need to get a note from my doctor, she said.
I’ve never consulted a doctor, in all the years I’ve lived in USA, for cerebral palsy. I stopped my six monthly visits with a consultant in Scotland when I was 15. I thought I was wasting my time, because I knew there was no cure for CP.
I chose to ‘get on with it’ and ignore cerebral palsy. This has always been easier said than done, as my close friends and my husband have patiently borne the brunt of my frustrations.
I am very interested in the discussions of the models of disability; medical model versus social model.
I am not ill.
I just don’t want to depend on the kindness of strangers to pin my juror’s badge and I don’t want a doctor’s note to say I can’t.
