Heidi Notario-Smull cringes every day when she drives along Cameron Street and sees one of the signs posted along the busy corridor.
The sign marks Asylum Run, a creek that starts in Lower Paxton Twp. and winds through the grounds of the former Harrisburg State Hospital in Susquehanna Twp., eventually emptying into Paxton Creek.
But it's just not a sign for a creek -- the name perpetuates negative stereotypes of people who live with mental disabilities, said Notario-Smull, an advocate specialist with the Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania.
Her agency and a dozen more like it have been trying to get the creek's name changed to Recovery Run, which Notario-Smull said better characterizes the focus of today's mental health care system.
May 16, 2007
Aren't There More Important Things For Disability Advocates To Worry About?
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Some people just actively look for something to offend them.
"But it's just not a sign for a creek -- the name perpetuates negative stereotypes of people who live with mental disabilities,"
Maybe change it to Cho Seung-Hu Run
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