The top question not to ask a disabled person is, “what’s wrong with you?” It assumes the person is abnormal or broken and that there is an answer to that offensive question. I only know what it’s like living with cerebral palsy.
2 Authentic Thoughts on What Not to Say to a Disabled Person Read More »
Everything Dell says here assumes Philip and his assistant Yvonne are racially profiling him before he speaks. Dell’s egocentrism and experience with racial discrimination help him win Philip over by treating him as “everyone else.”
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Despite Jace’s projections of his internal ableism on people during a fire drill, when Jace is struggling, John (a jock he previously antagonized) guides him out of school during a fire drill after he has lost his cane and begs for help.
Realizing Limitations in Disney’s Going to the Mat Read More »
In the Disney Channel movie Going to the Mat, Jace chooses to fight the stereotype of a blind musician to become a wrestler, literally going to the mat.
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Going to the Mat establishes Jace Newfield as a blind musical savant. But the film focuses on Jace desperately not wanting to be seen as a stereotype.
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In the 2004 film, the lesson taught is to not see disability at all. This coming-of-age story is about Jace Newfield moving across the country; and at his new school, everyone is a jock. So he joins the wrestling team to fit in. He happens to also be a blind musical savant.
Disney’s forgotten movie that promotes disability blindness Read More »
Generations of people are shaped by the “politically correct” ways to address topics such as disability. There is a latency between social acceptance and civil rights movements. Generations of people become complacent in what was considered the status quo when they were coming- of- age.
Politically correctness triggers bigotry Read More »
As a child, I was at least as “curious” about other disabilities as my able-bodied peers. I had questions about specific disabilities, such as visual impairments or hard-of-hearing people, that others without disabilities have. However, that doesn’t make it right for me to ask invasive questions of other disabled people.
Disabled people are not obligated to quell others curiosity Read More »
The belief that disabled people inherently make lesser contributions to society is ableist. It extends the thought that service dogs are a tool to lessen the burden of disability on society.
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