“I feel like most people watch superhero movies and are like That’s fiction. So I don’t understand why, because there’s a blind superhero and people have blurred the line between fiction and reality.” –Molly Burke Blurring Fiction and Reality One reason people may blur the lines is that there are so few points of reference […]
Beyond the Fantastic Four, Into Romantic Sides of Disability Read More »
Relatability Is The Bigger Impact Here The film Door to Door (2002) ends with a newspaper writing a piece on Bill Porter being a positive part of people’s lives and an inspiration. Of course, Bill was against being highlighted. The context of why someone is inspirational matters to the disability community because it is not a given
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The casting of Cranston to play a disabled character was controversial. According to Statista, the percentage of characters with disabilities shown on broadcast television dropped from 3.5% to 2.8% in 2022.
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Living with cerebral palsy has been the central identity that has made me different my whole life. Since I have had cerebral palsy since birth when people ask what’s it like living with cerebral palsy? I don’t have a clear answer.
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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.
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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.
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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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The time it takes to “warm up” to disabled persons or animals seems universal in that sense. People with disabilities are “misfits.“
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The origins of internalized ableism can be traced back to the influence of those assumptions and the expectations placed on the person with a disability to educate others.
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