Attitudes to CP historical and present day. Speaking for ourselves -Scope series.

[rcwallace21]

youtube.com/watch?feature=p...

[joanne54]

I am 60 next birthday . My mother asked the headmistress of the infants school. To give me six months. Thank God she gave me the chance. Or I would have been sent away to school.

[niceboots Volunteer]

what a fascinating film... It makes me feel so lucky that for the most part peoples attitudes towards disability have changed for the better.

However there are some people that still have a long way to go... and I could relate to some of these stories, particularly about education. Although I only left school in 2003, I feel I was held back in senior school because of cp. I was put into lower sets because I could not physically keep up, even though interlectually I was far ahead of my peers. This still gives me a huge feeling of resentment towards those that were meant to be helping me achieve, and I don't feel I had reached my full potential even though I left with reasonably good grades.