Through out my life I watched different documents that showed people with disabilities accomplishing the impossible like Helen Keller, Pocahontas, and the extraordinary people. My mom felt that by watching these shows it would encourage me to keep learning and give me people that I can look up to. I found Lives Worth Living very interesting because it talked about a certain side of disability that I never understood. I don 't like politics but I found the fight for their rights very interesting. Many people label people with disabilities weak, unable, incompetent but when the fight for disability fights were occurring during 1973 and 1990 they separated themselves from their label and climbed those stairs. When that didn 't work they kept performing
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The problem with these types of movies is most often they depict people with different disabilities as scary, evil, or dangerous. A great example of this is the popular show of American Horror Story. This show has a character or many characters that have disabilities within every season. The first season showed a child who has down syndrome and they showed her as scary, socially inept, and someone who should wish to be a normal girl. For example, in one of the episodes they showed the character wishing to be a beautiful, normal girl for Halloween. Her mom desired to accomplish this wish but instead of doing her makeup and dressing her up, the mother got her a mask telling her that the only way for her to be pretty and not scary is to cover her disability. After there second season, they received criticism for the way they represent characters with disabilities and for the fact that they get 'normal ' actors to represent them. Therefore, for their fifth season they changed their plots to where people with disabilities are acted by people with those disabilities that are proud to act the parts because they are being portrayed now correctly. Further, they changed their format from the people with disabilities being the people who commit murder or are portrayed as something to be feared as the people who are the victims socially and
The problem with these types of movies is most often they depict people with different disabilities as scary, evil, or dangerous. A great example of this is the popular show of American Horror Story. This show has a character or many characters that have disabilities within every season. The first season showed a child who has down syndrome and they showed her as scary, socially inept, and someone who should wish to be a normal girl. For example, in one of the episodes they showed the character wishing to be a beautiful, normal girl for Halloween. Her mom desired to accomplish this wish but instead of doing her makeup and dressing her up, the mother got her a mask telling her that the only way for her to be pretty and not scary is to cover her disability. After there second season, they received criticism for the way they represent characters with disabilities and for the fact that they get 'normal ' actors to represent them. Therefore, for their fifth season they changed their plots to where people with disabilities are acted by people with those disabilities that are proud to act the parts because they are being portrayed now correctly. Further, they changed their format from the people with disabilities being the people who commit murder or are portrayed as something to be feared as the people who are the victims socially and