Hay guys. I am sure that most of you know about the new ABC show called Speechless. Its a American sitcom about a family of five. The mother, played by Mimi Driver, is a fierce advocate for her son JJ because he has a Cerebral Palsy. JJ is played by Micah Flower who himself has Cerebral Palsy. This almost never happens. There have been two episodes so far and while I have a milder form of Cerebral Palsy there are still things that I can relate to. I am going to be blogging about them every Thursday but since I am down two episodes I am going to use today and tomorrow to blog about it.Zack Anner has talked about how mothers that have disabled children fight for their kids, so I am going to say that my mom has always been my best advocate too. She fought for me to have a college education.
The thing I want to talk about is how people talk down to the disabled. This happens twice in the episode. Once where their in a parking lot and people are mocking him and the other time is when JJ enters class.
This has become a big issue for me recently. I was hoping once I graduated from college that I would not have to face this. I was just recently at a disability conference where people taught that I did not know how to read. This is extremely frustrating to me and makes me angry. What able bodied people can do about it is assume that a disabled person understands what is going on. For me I am trying to work on a way to handle this.
