Comments on: J-Mac is Back

By: Art from a Pringles Can

Art from a Pringles Can — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:20:00 +0000

[...] chips cans. Now that’s recycling (”green” art?). Wonder if he’s done J-Mac? Tags: Art, asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, basketball, chips, disabilities blog, diy, Kobe [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:00:34 +0000

Thanks to abfh for pointing out what I’ll refer to as the overuse of the rhetoric of heroism in regard to disability, and to Ballastexistenz for pointing me to When a world hero is a cripple, ordinary mortals just can’t cope…but when ordinary cripples go out for a beer, they’re heroes.

By: abfh

abfh — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:50:25 +0000

I was going to leave a comment, but this irked me so much that I wrote a post instead:

http://autisticbfh.blogspot.com/2007/02/sports-prejudice-and-journalism.html

By: Daisy

Daisy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:56:34 +0000

Or…”(Student)overcomes autism to win spelling bee”

By: Leila

Leila — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:44:23 +0000

I love that he wants Matthew McConaughey to play him in a movie… He is a total hottie! But maybe too old for the role.

By: Club 166

Club 166 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:42:34 +0000

Have you heard any headlines saying “Mentally Retarded Student Drops 20 Points” or even “Schizophrenic Athlete Drops 20 Points”?

I hope we hear all of those, someday.

And I hope that we get beyond that to when it’s so common that “kids with labels” are mainstreamed and doing so many great things that it isn’t until the 3rd paragraph of the story that their particular label is mentioned.