ok now for the post
I am in collage like I mentioned before. it is a community collage and i am going until I can transfer to a four year, i do not have a intellectual disability people but apparently not everyone thinks that.
I want to say first off that the students in my classes have been great they treat me as an equal and help me not friendship outside of class , but there has been small talk outside of class, which is fine by me as i want to graduate asap to move to four year.
there is a girl though who gets on my naves and the irony of it I met her when donating to some fundraiser to Japan. She talked to me as I was a baby and I did not think of anything of it at first. But then I left my iphone at the booth and that is when it all started. They called my Dad to them that it would be in student rec room and my dad of course told me.
Seeing me at a table , the girl, who i would say is not to much older than me, says in this high pitched voice that is normally used on infants "oh honey you left your phone in building __ OK you know where that is ?" Come on I am standing near the building and I am not a baby.
The only thing that maybe celebrates me from this girl is the fact that I had a stroke before i was born. I am a 19 year old women after all. I am in collage not kindergarten why do people assume that disabled people are automatically kids. I am not a baby I can hold a baby I was a baby but that was in 1991. I am a high school graduate and one of the best writers in my class of students who do not have disabilities so all i ask is for respect thanks
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| my high school graduation picture taken late summer 2009 |
8 comments:
Beautifully written as always. Keep striving and don't let those people who don't know any better get you down! Thanks for sharing
She was probably using her high-pitch voice as a signal to others or even to boys.
Love this post for Blogging against Disabilism Day.
I'm here from BADD, great post, and too true!
Great post for BADD about ableist tudes. Nice to find your blog.
My son gets talked to in that "baby voice" as well, and it certainly is enough to make me grind my teeth! Great post!
The speech disability is a lot of it too. People just assume that since you have trouble speaking that you don't understand them. Peanut gets that a lot. Granted she does have an intellectual disability also, but she is much smarter than people give her credit for. It's very frustrating. In the end though, it's the other girl's problem, not yours. Hang in there!
I know how you feel I feel like slapping people when they talk to me like that but I was raised better than that :)
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