Human nature just about kills me.
There's a mentally incapacitated girl (and by this I mean mentally retarded) in our class, Maria, right? I pity her and envy her at the same time.
I pity her, not because she's mentally retarded, but because... there's so much prejudice against her. A midget little kid is also in our class and she was following him around today and he-- it wasn't anything abusive like making fun of her (to her face), it was something even worse. Not quite neglect but...prejudice. That litle midget kid scared me. He seriously did.
Yet I thought he was the most adorable thing in the world!
Prejudice makes people ugly. And he's not the only one either.
It's because of reasons like this that I hate America. I'm not going to lie. I didn't do anything because I seriously didn't want to be in her place. I don't want to be ridiculed by my very own classmates.
And then I ask myself: Is this why nobody does anything?
I want to do something, stand up and tell those people to shut the ******** up, but my legs won't move and my heart breaks with every second.
And then I envy her, because she's so innocent. She follows the people who pay her attention around like a puppy. It's adorable and I wish... I wish I could keep jumping back everytime I was rejected.
I was talking to these freshman girls in my class, Rachel and Kelly, and I respected them, I really did. And then:
"What does it matter? It's not like she can understand anything."
It was the biggest show of ignorance I have ever seen in my life. So just because a dog isn't human, or because it doesn't speak a language we speak, it means it can't unerstand neglect or, or abuse? It can't understand when it's owner refuses to give affection?
Last time I checked a human being needed love to function correctly. Does that not apply to a person who, who's mentally retarded?
In my point of view, being prejudiced towards a retarded person just for their being retarded is the same thing as being prejudiced towards a black person for being black, or a gay man for being gay. Maria can't help being retarded any more than a black person can help being black, or that midget kid can help being short.
"What does it matter? It's not like she can understand anything."
I felt so much older than them in that one moment. It seems like I've lived over a hundred times more than they did.
I hate it.
I'm not a better person than Rachel or Kelly, or even those kids making of Maria. But then why, when I decided to do something about it tomorrow, did I feel like I was?
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I hate humanity. There's a mentally incapacitated girl (and by this I mean mentally retarded) in our class, Maria, right? I pity her and envy her at the same time.
I pity her, not because she's mentally retarded, but because... there's so much prejudice against her. A midget little kid is also in our class and she was following him around today and he-- it wasn't anything abusive like making fun of her (to her face), it was something even worse. Not quite neglect but...prejudice. That litle midget kid scared me. He seriously did.
Yet I thought he was the most adorable thing in the world!
Prejudice makes people ugly. And he's not the only one either.
It's because of reasons like this that I hate America. I'm not going to lie. I didn't do anything because I seriously didn't want to be in her place. I don't want to be ridiculed by my very own classmates.
And then I ask myself: Is this why nobody does anything?
I want to do something, stand up and tell those people to shut the ******** up, but my legs won't move and my heart breaks with every second.
And then I envy her, because she's so innocent. She follows the people who pay her attention around like a puppy. It's adorable and I wish... I wish I could keep jumping back everytime I was rejected.
I was talking to these freshman girls in my class, Rachel and Kelly, and I respected them, I really did. And then:
"What does it matter? It's not like she can understand anything."
It was the biggest show of ignorance I have ever seen in my life. So just because a dog isn't human, or because it doesn't speak a language we speak, it means it can't unerstand neglect or, or abuse? It can't understand when it's owner refuses to give affection?
Last time I checked a human being needed love to function correctly. Does that not apply to a person who, who's mentally retarded?
In my point of view, being prejudiced towards a retarded person just for their being retarded is the same thing as being prejudiced towards a black person for being black, or a gay man for being gay. Maria can't help being retarded any more than a black person can help being black, or that midget kid can help being short.
"What does it matter? It's not like she can understand anything."
I felt so much older than them in that one moment. It seems like I've lived over a hundred times more than they did.
I hate it.
I'm not a better person than Rachel or Kelly, or even those kids making of Maria. But then why, when I decided to do something about it tomorrow, did I feel like I was?
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That is seriously horrible, babe. But be brave. I know you can do it.