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Editor's Notes

• #3: Meet Alice who is a 30 year old lawyer. She graduated from law school at Duke University. In her mid-twenties she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. With therapy and some medication, she has lived a normal life.. She has many friends and is respected among her colleagues. One day while walking to work, she saw a strange glass ball that was the size of a marble . It was flickering. Being curious she picked up the ball. Her hand became hot and she felt dizzy. Suddenly, she was whirled into black tunnel and did tnot know what was happening to her. When the whirling ended she was…..
• #4: When the whirling stopped she was sitting on the ground by an ancient village. She was disoriented and frantic. Villagers stopped and stared at her. Some one yelled, “ She must be demon possessed!” They picked her up and carried her to the village shaman. Alex started screaming and the old man told the villagers that she was possessed.
• #5: She needed trephination to release the demon inside her head. When Alice saw a man holding a drill, she panicked. Then she remembered the mysterious ball that was in her pocket. She grabbed it. Whoosh. she was thrust back into a dark swirling tunnel. Being disoriented she thought, “Whew. I so glad I escaped!. Now where am I going?”
• #6: Bam! She landed in Egypt about 1900 BC. She was very anxious when people started examining her. One man said she must have a Wondering Uterus, because she was so nervous. That is when the uterus becomes dislodged and attaches to other parts of the boy like the chest cavity. To get it to function better they gave her smelling substances to guide the uterus back into the proper position. Then the mystical ball flickered again and soon she was deposited in a room with a bearded physician who spoke Greek.
• #7: The man, who called himself Hippocrates was shocked to see Alice in strange clothes. However, being an educated man he began talking with Alice and learned that a strange thing happened to her. She kept sayings something about a mystical ball, and she was from the future. Hippocrates saw this as very strange. However, he did not believe in superstition or problems with the gods. Hippocrates believed that her humors or bodily fluids were out of balance. He explained that there were 4 humors which applied to personality. For instance a cheerful and optimistic person had lots of blood flowing and they were sanguine. People with too much black bile were depressed or melancholic. People with too much phlegm were sluggish and calm under stress or phlegmatic. Lastly, a choleric person had too much yellow bile, which made them hot tempered. Alice seemed depressed. So he told her he could help her by blood-letting.
• #8: Alice did not buy that draining her blood to get rid of her black humor to be happy. She was anything but happy about this! Again, she grabbed the magic ball in her pocket hoping to get away from Hippocrates and the blood-letting. POOF! She transported again into the tunnel. Around and around she went and was finally deposited in again another time.
• #9: It looked like medieval times. She was on a farm next to a gigantic castle. A man was riding a horse and plowing a field as another man threw seeds along. The farmers took her into their home. They fed her and were kind to her. They gave her chores with the other family members. They explained that usually families took care of people with disabilities. Routine and support helped them. She stayed with the farming community for quite awhile. She like the way she was accepted and respected. However, times changed, and to get jobs , the farmers moved to city called London. She went with them.
• #10: London was filthy and shrouded in smog. This was the time of the industrial revolution. They had a hard time finding a place to live. There were so many homeless people. Alice had difficulty finding a job, because she did not have the skills for the industrial jobs available. So the family found out she could go to school and learn a trade.
• #11: So he was sent to an asylum school. It was not so bad, but he noticed more and more people were coming there. Some could not talk and had difficulty behaviors. Although the people were only to be there a short time for training, very few left. As the time went on there were so many people and less workers. It was a terrible place to be. Luckily he had still had the magic ball. Maybe it would work again and he could leave this terrible place. So he grabbed it and it became warm. Suddenly, he was thrusted back into the swirling tunnel.
• #12: When she landed again, she was at a strange party in a dark room. A man named Mesmer stood by a vat with water and chemicals with rods extending from it. Mesmer dressed in flowing robes and said that he was identifying areas in the guests’ bodies where their animal magnetism was blocked. She felt like he was hypnotizing her. He suggested strongly that she was cured. Was he a charlatan or a genius? Again she had to get out of here and grabbed the mystical ball and off she went through the spinning tunnel.
• #13: Alice landed this time in Washington DC during the “Capitol Crawl” in the spring of 1990. In the 1960s people with disabilities also joined the civil rights movement and wanted equal rights and social barriers eliminated. Instead of being institutionalized, they wanted equal access to public services. When President Nixon vetoed the bill in 1972, there was an uproar over this. This generated more active protests by advocates and people with disabilities. Finally, in 1973 Congress over ruled the veto it. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 protected by law, the equal rights for people with disabilities. The Capitol Crawl was protesting accessibility. People left their wheelchairs and crawled up the steps to the Capitol Building, that was inaccessible to them in their wheelchairs.
• #14: The Capitol Crawl was the catalyst for President Bush signed the American Disabilities Act (or ADA) on July 29, 1990. ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in housing, employment, and access to buildings. Still there were states that did not follow the ADA and the US government litigated to improve their conditions. When Alice heard this, she really wanted to go back to her office and advocate for people with disabilities.
• #15: 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act Every child has a right to education and provided school access for children with dishabilles. This was later renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which provided Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) for children who need extra assistance.