Can I also say, for the record, that despite being learning disabled, I wouldn’t vote for the BNP if they were the last Party on earth – they expound heinous views. This whole comment by DC is just so offensive to me personally.

As a ‘retard’ myself (I have high-functioning autism and a learning disability) I find this so personally offensive I’m finding it hard to type!

I’ve spent literally days/weeks/months working on my website to ensure the election information is available in accessible formats for learning disabled adults – NONE of the political parties are remotely interested in US as votes it seems – oddly really, since there are over one million learning disabled adults in the UK who are eligible to vote (according to MENCAP’s Get My Vote Campaign).

I’ve written articles about this, no one wishes to publish because ‘learning disabilities aren’t interesting to people’ – I give up, I really do. There is SOOO much myth-information about LD adults and absolutely no media organization wishes to help us(those of us in the LD community) to raise a positive (and realistic) profile of any of us.

I’ve lost count of the amount of times people have recently said they’re “speaking up for us as we’re unable to speak for ourselves” well, that’s great, seriously, I’m glad people DO but many of us within the LD community ARE perfectly capable of voicing our own concerns – if only anyone would publish them.