So, a little bird
told me about a moment in which a few humans engaged in an interaction. And I
found myself inspired to write this very soon after. It poses rhetorical
questions. Though it violates the rules of rhetoric, feel free to answer them:
What's wrong with being special needs? Why does the fact that
you have special needs make you subhuman or inferior in the eyes of those
around you? Why do people become diminutive if their bodily condition gives
them more challenges to overcome? Just because someone needs different help and
attention than the “average” person in this world, or has to expend more energy
and fight to function as is expected or "normal,” doesn't make them
incapable or characteristically incapacitated. Nor does it mean that they need
to be coddled or always attended to. That sort of patronization is just as bad
as derogatory words and gestures. It’s just a nicer face to the beast at the
root.
That beast is superiority. That beast is hubris. That beast is
condescension. That beast is hateful because that beast is disrespect. And
that beast needs to die.
There is nothing fundamentally different between
human beings. Not one person on this planet lacks a soul or spirit. Not one
lacks love. God creates every person in His image and loves each unabashedly.
Every. Last. One.
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