"WHAT STARTED IN A SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM WITH A CRACKED IPHONE HAS EVOLVED INTO AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF ACCEPTANCE, LOVE, AND DIVERSITY"
WEEK 8
The SBSK (Special Books by Special Kids) organization is something I came across while scrolling Facebook. I watched the video and I was excited to hear this man pushing for acceptance and understand of variablility. He's going out with the goal of "normalizing the diversity of the human condition". With at home equipment and a strong mindset he's basically knocking out all those stereotypes we've been discussing in class. Towards the end, there is a young girl he is interviewing and she says, "just because it's words on a website or words in a book doesn't describe us as people". I think that what this man is doing and how these children feel particularly the last girl I mentioned is that movies and literature and the like have constructed this picture of people with special abilities and decided "this is what they are all like" and like Longmore says they usually are put in a position or role where they are malevolent characters who use their anger to "get back" at the non-disabled community. (133) But this whole documentary contradicts what popular media portrays to us. This breaks down those walls between the non-disabled and disabled communities. I'm not naive and saying he's changing the outlook of every non-disabled person out there, but think about it, all he had was a will and he found a way and his story is being told. He is reaching people. Imagine what a 100 more people with his ambition to create this atmosphere within the world could do for the disabled community.
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