Damn it, why does television always depict cerebral palsy to be the same as mentally disabled?
I was going to make some abnoxious comment about people being stupid or assholes. But it is more basic than that.
It is people being ignorant and not doing their homework, this is combined with, if it sounds good, it's good enough.
People do that crap in the weirdest situations. My wife speaks English. A little slow, since we speak Japanese most of the time, but she understands wonderfully. I don't have to be careful at all. And yet, and yet, my mother, god bless her, talks to my wife like my wife is three.
She treats my wife like she is mentally disabled. Then she wonders why my wife doesn't want to go visit. I love my mom. I call almost once a week. But, even knowing she doesn't mean to be mean, I get annoyed and don't try to put the effort into getting my wife to go for a visit.
I can only imagine how much worse it is for people who have their physical disabilities mistaken like that.
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