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Observations From Below: The Unstoppable Force and the Immovable Object

By Bryan Dooley Posted on July 1, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with accessibility, California, PAS, physician assisted suicide

Pro and anti "assisted dying" campaigners protest outside the Houses of Parliament in central London, Britain September 11, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

I’m no philosopher. But lately, I have been wrestling internally with an ancient philosophical question. What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? In other words, what happens when you believe in two contradictory concepts? One core belief …

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Observations From Below: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words (Part 2)

By Bryan Dooley Posted on June 21, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with accessibility, disability rights, entertainment

This past Sunday, like many other people, I watched the NBA Finals. I saw a special commercial for Father’s Day from Fitbit, featuring a father who was running while pushing his son in a wheelchair. The two athletes featured in …

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Observations From Below: A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words (Part 2)

By Bryan Dooley Posted on June 21, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized

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Observations From Below: Angels and Demons

By Bryan Dooley Posted on June 7, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with accessibility, Catholic Church, disability

I recently had an experience at my church. A couple of weeks ago, before the service began, one of the church officials put his hand on my head (a gesture usually found to be against disability protocol). He began to …

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Observations From Below: Transitioning Into College

By Bryan Dooley Posted on May 27, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with accessibility, education, High School Graduation, Impact

One of the first things I learned graduating high school and going to college, was that college requires a lot more responsibilities and work. In high school, you may have had a whole support group behind you, such as physical …

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Observations From Below: Automan’s Utility Belt

By Bryan Dooley Posted on May 25, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with accessibility, apple, assistive technology, disability, disability rights, google

Batman has his utility belt, James Bond has Q, and Supercrips like me often rely on assistive technology. Assistive Technology is any item, equipment, or software program that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons …

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Observations From Below: My Brother’s Keeper

By Bryan Dooley Posted on May 18, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with accessibility, caregiving, disability rights, family

It is well understood that the relationship between siblings is often a strong and unique bond. Sometimes you hate them and the other times you love them. Even though I don’t technically have any siblings, I have a large and …

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Observations From Below: Duke

By Bryan Dooley Posted on May 13, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with Ada, Dogs

Over the last 9 months, I have written blogs about all of the supports in my life, except for one. He is getting older now, so I thought that I would write about him now before there is any bad …

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Observations From Below: If It Weren’t for CP….

By Bryan Dooley Posted on May 11, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with Impact, It’s A Wonderful Life, Relationships

Last week I discussed, given the option, would I cure myself. I recently had an experience which I think provides an interesting follow up. You might notice in my head shot for the Huffington Post I had a weird growth …

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