The Advertisement Campaign For (High Functioning) Disabilities
It may just be me, but it seems with all the heavy promoting by various organizations, parents and other people for the acceptance of children with special needs, that we, as a whole, are trying to sell everyone a better more desirable version of the child and their disability. I say that as news stories abound everywhere on social media like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with pictures galore of children and adults with Down syndrome, autism or other disabilities participating in athletics like cheerleading, basketball, or wrestling on school teams, graduating from high school with their diploma in hand, modeling for Target, Nordstrom and Toy 'R Us, getting a regular old job or even being a bat boy for the Cincinnati Reds. Videos of dancers or athletes with Down syndrome blowing people's ever loving minds by their abilities. Marriages, driver's licenses and college bound adults with disabilities are rising. How about the boy with autism who is a physics geniu...