As Bill Cosby used to say, kids really do say the darndest things. Whether it’s loudly asking in a public place why someone’s so fat, old or funny looking kids are often all curiousity and no tact. Invariably when these statement are made it’s with “the finger” pointed towards the subject of curiousity to make it that much harder to pretend nothing has been said.
Sometimes an explanation will be offered but in the case of disability the response is don’t look, don’t ask, don’t say anything…
It’s like disability is the topic-that-shall-remain-nameless, or as the Huffington Post put it, it’s like disability is Voldemort – don’t say its name!
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