A friend of mine once remarked that when he was growing up, he thought that he was either going to die before he reached adulthood, or he’d grow up to be a nondisabled person. The lack of disabled people on screen taught him that people like him only existed inside the walls of the hospital he visited regularly, and his special school. He had no idea disabled people came in adult form because he’d simply never seen any.

The Politics of Exclusion

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Wow.

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In case you doubt: REPRESENTATION IS IMPORTANT