Disability and childhood

One thing that really used to bug me as a boy growing up disabled is we were often invisible in the media with only Vision On really showing disability positively which perhaps was appropriate as that was a show aimed for and around Deaf People.

The Literary world was just as bad at the time reinforcing the idea we were just angelic objects requiring compassion and your cash rather than boys and girls who had disabilities.

This was one book that at least tried to portray physical disability as a boy positively showing how children when encouraged can adapt play, which is our social life to take into account the need of everyone in settings that should be rightly free from grown ups.

That's because all of us those of us who are disabled and those of you who are not need to learn to handle this as part our lives by ourselves and even to understand how we may treat others who we might rely on has consequences too.

A culture of entitlement on our part is no better than one of thing we're somebody else's problem on yours.

*Inspired by a tumblr post of July 2019 sadly no longer with us.