Probably, like I said we had similarly disabled pupils in primary and high school so none of us had a problem with it, having grown up with it.
Disabled Children's Presenter "Scares Children"
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Probably, like I said we had similarly disabled pupils in primary and high school so none of us had a problem with it, having grown up with it.
Me, too.
In a similar thread in TNZ, I posted about a girl we went through grade school with. She was smart, funny, and everyone liked her. She was also born with no arms. Doctors had altered her legs to make them more flexible, and she wrote with her feet. Almost anything we could do with our hands, including using a knife and fork, she could do with her feet. No one ever made fun of her or shunned her. She was just Wendy. That's the way it was.
She moved before we all got to junior high, but an article appeared about her in our local newspaper a few years later. She had become a very good diver, and went on to become the number two diver on the University of Florida's team.
I guess those outraged parents would've wanted her in a "special" school away from their children, let alone let her compete (gasp, in front of people) in athletics.
The complaining parents are pure shit. I hate to run across people like that, but they're out there. Pure shit.
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Couldn't tell if the sock was supposed to have a Britishified Brooklyn accent or not.
Well, with Jane hopped up on meds you never can tell.
And I've been waiting for years to work Jane and the Truth Snake into a post.
Or Jim Abbott, how could I forget him? He was a great pitcher for the University of Michigan, won the gold medal game for the United States in baseball in the 1988 Olympics, won the Jesse Owens Award, then went on to have a ten year Major League career. Oh, and he was born without a right hand.
God. This is the kinda stuff with that TV host really mashes my potatoes. Bugs me far too much. I gotta let it go. It's amazing that in this day and age there are still people who think the disabled should be shunted from the public spotlight and not be able to use their talents because they don't look "normal." Or worse yet, because they look "scarry."
The drummer for Def Leppard lost an arm in a car accident, he has a heavily modded kit now but he can still hold his own amongst the world's best. I've watched him play in person maybe 6 years after the accident, it's pretty phenomenal.
It's amazing what people can achieve against the odds and with some determination.
I am a disabled person myself, and I was scared of other people with disabilities too. If these kids are anything like me, they'll grow out of it.
If they're not, screw 'em.
The adaptability of Human Beings is really astonishing.
Yeah, never got that either...
But it's mostly because people aren't used to disabled people...
I grew up with a grandfather whoooo t a leg when hwas 12, i was close friends with a disabled girl when i was 8 or 9 years old and the daughter of my cousin is also disabled...
I also was regulairly in hospital up until i was 12(Nothing too serious, but when i was sick i was really sick) and i met lots of kids and people who where disabled as well...
Here in the Netherlands we have a rather hot female presentor who had polio when she was young so she walks a bit funny...
Lucille Werner:
She actually started a Miss competition for disabled women a couple of years ago and now does a talent show for handicapped people...
Children aren't scared by funny walking.
The parental retardation of some people beggars belief.
What are they going to do if their kids see a disabled person on the street? Avert their eyes? Dart into a convenient sidestreet? Stop being douchebags and accept that some people happen to be built differently?
Ridiculous.
What are they going to do if their kids see a disabled person on the street? Avert their eyes? Dart into a convenient sidestreet? Stop being douchebags and accept that some people happen to be built differently?
Ridiculous.
You wanna see the reaction of some people when I get out of my wheelchair and walk. I've even had a total stranger say to me "That was a quick recovery!" like an accusation, when they've seen me stand up out of the wheelchair.
The adaptability of Human Beings is really astonishing.
Indeed, which is why the whole affair in the OP is a little sad, these kids are at the perfect age surely to be taught that such things are just part and parcel of life and shouldn't alarm anyone.
I found that really annoying when I worked in security, with parents trying to pull children away from any disabled person - more than once I heard the argument that they were more likely to be pedophiles - which was one of the most narrow minded things I'd heard there.
I can imagine a lot of people doing a double-take. Especially those of the, shall we say, elderly persuasion.
There was a guy at my school with a prosthetic foot who played rugby, and amazingly, some people took this to mean that he'd lied about only having one foot. Why the fuck would you lie about that?!?!?
On the subject of the new presenters, I have to say they're patronising and dull compared to the two they replaced. I miss Pui and Chris. Links to In The Night Garden were never the same again after the changeover.
My 2 year old quite likes the new people though and hasn't commented on her lack of a limb, and it's not like she doesn't notice things. Although I'm not surprised that she's displaying more maturity than some of this country's most fuck-witted parents.
NICE! 
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I think in a situation like that, the parent not only feels uncomfortable and wants to get away, but is worried about what horrible things his child might say.
I scare children when I go out in public without makeup, myself.