Can you relate to the videos? Have you worked or played with people with disabilities? What kind of relationship do you have with your siblings?
This touching video (subtitled in Spanish) tells the story of the relationship between an older sister and her little autistic brother.
This children's story, turned into a video, deals with the exclusion and marginalisation suffered by many people with disabilities (physcial or mental).
Finally, this very short video is of a simple story that is told, every year, to the blind and visually impaired children who attend extra classes at the ONCE's educational centre in Barcelona. I'm sure you'll understand why when you watch it.
We can relate the videos as the three talk about the fact that you have to treat people with disabilities with the same rights and forms as normal people. When I say normal I mean without any disability.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had the opportunity to play or talk with people who have disabilities but I am perfectly sure that they'd be normal, play in their way but play. That's it. They do things but just in a different thing. There is no problem in that. As the third video says, people often escape people with disabilities because they think they are strange and that they will act like Martians, but that is obviously untrue.
We should work for people with these disabilities to integrate into working, indeed here in Spain, they are already doing this. There are more and more organizations that are dedicated to helping the disabled every day. Such as ONCE, UCM, etc.
It's fantastic and we should work for it! They are humans, different but humans.
For me it is clear how acceptance is a transcendent issue for a happier existence. There is no need of feeling weird when close to an autistic person, for example, or any person with a physical or mental disability. Moreover, I have had the opportunity to spend a weekend surrounded by disabled people of all ages (form 12 to 50), and I can guarantee it is a beautiful experience. So amazing I have repeated a few times and I am planning on repeating again!
ReplyDeleteI wanted you to see a video related to this that made me stop and think for a while. It still does every time I see it, and I have done so so many times…it is absolutely amazing. It refers to the fact that we all have to be happy with what we have. The main character (you’ll see his particularity) tries to make youth understand how they always have to be thankful, no matter what problems they have. He expresses his disagreement with eating disorders, being angry with life and with others, and low-esteem problems in general, but in a way that makes you think through what he is trying to say. Watch and tell me what you think!
i watched the three videos an i find particularly disturbing the 1 one, i think autism es a very serious illness which should be treated with love and passion if it weren´t for his sister and parents this little boy would´ve suffered more. Being lonely is one of the worst things that can happen to any of us, coexistance with other people is what lead us to the future we have to accept people as they are, they don´t have to change but we do society has to change drastically to make these people feel comfortable, feel happy, to feel good about themselves. SOme children didn´ñt choose to suffer this disabilities they were automatically fixed imagine if you had any close relatives with that problem... if i had a close relative or friend with this type of pproblem i would try to ease things make everything seem normal eventhough he is speacial he should be special for us
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