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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

5 annoying stereotypes about intellectual disabilities

Biography:
Hi I'm Meredith and I blog over at disability diaries, my special needs blog. I did FlutistPride's challenge and she asked if I wanted to do a guest post. Today's guest post is on stereotypes about intellectual disabilities and those who have them including myself. These are mostly based off of my experiences so I can not speak for everyone.

1. Oh S/He can't understand so it's fine. I get this one a lot from people I also get something similar about my hearing loss both of are wrong in my case. I can hear and understand you! If someone says this and the person with ID actually doesn't understand then now your just being a jerk and a coward.

2.  I don't trust them with that, they might get hurt. Sometimes people think that those with ID are stupid and don't let them work on a group project or let you get materials even if you are perfectly capable of it.

3. Aww what a cute little kid.
Many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities tend to act younger than they are. One time a friend of mine when he was 10 a person at the hotel he was staying at thought he was 6.

4. Ok you color in this picture and we're going to go talk about this. I have had other people including peers tell me to do something for a much younger child while they go talk or do something.

5. Oh them they're retarded they can't do anything. Um no and don't say the R word it's offensive. This is basically my thoughts on this stereotype.
Image Description: An aptly selected photo showing a scene from the film The Hobbit captioned "#Excuse you." in a yellow sans-serif font




(Blog Owner Note: Meredith is one of my regular commenters; this is her content. I made some minor edits for grammar and readability, but not enough to kill the essence of her writing. The voices of self-advocates with intellectual disabilities often go unheard despite the fact that they are much needed. Meredith enlightened me with her voice; I highly suggest reading her content.)

7 comments:

  1. Good job Meredith. I don't have an ID but people have treated me younger than I am because they think people with hearing loss aren't smart. I hate the r word so much.

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    1. I'm glad you noticed my first guest post.

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    2. I have had me treat me differently/younger after they find out about my disabilities. I hate the R word,when ever people say it or jokingly call themselves or others deaf it always makes me kind of annoyed because their not deaf and don't have hearing loss probably.

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    3. Oh yes the deaf thing. HATE that because people use it as an insult or a way to insinuate lack of intelligence.

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  2. Thank you for letting me guest post. A little mistake I found though, the film is The Hobbit. Not lord of the rings with thorin saying #excuse you.

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