Three Examples Of Disability In Popular Culture

In this essay, my three examples of disability in popular culture will be Becky from the show Glee, JJ from the show Speechless, and Forest Gump from the movie Forest Gump. My first example is Becky. In the show, Becky seems to be well liked from her peers. She is also puts on this tough front and is very sassy but also has feelings and gets upset like everyone else. Her peers around her are very careful not to hurt her feelings and sometimes treats her like a child. Socially Becky is on the cheer time and is best friends with her cheer coach and tries to help her take down the glee club. The only time you see Becky with a boyfriend or a date to the dance it would be someone else with a disability because none of her non-disabled peers want to date her or take her out. My next example is J.J. from the show Speechless. J.J. like Becky is well liked. He is in a wheelchair and has a device to talk. He has a one on one aide throughout the school day and helps his family at home. Socially J.J. is well liked but not always understood because of his communication device. He also fights with his parents and siblings like any teenager would at his age. My last example is Forest Gump. During the movie, Forest was depicted …show more content…
For the most part they are. You then hear those stories on the news that people who have been trained to work with people with disabilities, if it’s a teacher, paraprofessional, nurse, or someone of similar sorts, they abuse them or mishandle them. I recently read a news article about two people who were teachers working with a student with Autism and they were abusing him and making fun of him and their reasoning for doing so was that is how they are supposed to handle his emotional outbreaks. They both lost their teaching certificates and were facing more discipline. But that was one case that made the news and who knows how many more similar incidents go on without anyone possibly