Comment by Moru

Comment by Moru 10 months ago

My daughter had a few disabled children in the same group during her kindergarden/school years. No more than one or two at the same time. It was always started with a proper explanation of the handicap and the problems and how to handle the situations. And after that there was just natural playing with eachother in the group. Children are wonderful at learning, accepting and adapting. It just takes a good teacher to lead them on the right path from the start.

DanielleMolloy 10 months ago

I see the necessity good intentions behind it, but also believe this singling out can lead to developing this sense of shame the user mentioned.

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jesterswilde 10 months ago

The shame was my own issue of going from sighted to blind. A disabled person is singularly different than most other folks (although people with major disabilities are ~16% of the population.) The momentary discomfort of being singled out is just the price of admission and better than the alternative of people not understanding out how interacting with us or choosing not to.

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zdragnar 10 months ago

Everything has failure modes. The idea, I think, is to get it out in the open up front, after which it is just the new normal that everyone accepts, rather than drag out discovering implications of the difference again and again as they uncover them.

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