Disabilities

As someone who is somewhat disabled and wears glasses (a double combo), I know all to well, the harshness of kids, and others, who feel the need to pick on those who "don't measure up". You'll be surprised how often I was called "retard" or "retarded", when I was younger.

I have been called "four eyes" and God knows what else from the time my preschool classmates could speak properly right on up, and that was just for wearing glasses. Never mind my (undiagnosed at the time) developmental disability and what that induced. A little sit down time by parents that care about their kids' behavior would aleviate a lot of this nonsense, along with good modeling by said parents. And for those out there who are (still) dealing with nonsense like this, don't let them get to you. They don't know, and they don't get it, so they can bugger off. :)

kids can be very cruel to other kids if they have a disability. our son has a developemental disability. he is very smart. but is considered "different" from them so they feel it gives them the right to harass him. {He does not provoke those kids}but what do you expect when those kids have parents who have taught them it is okay to harass someone who differs from them. i know for fact that ever since we have tried to send our son to school that the PTA parents have told their kids NOT to speak to him or me his mother.the PTA type parents in my town have a theory{as warped and untrue as it is} that any parent who has a child with any kind of disability was on drugs when they were pregnant.and they must be shunned by other kids and parents. I can assure you I am just about the most strict tea tottler, never so much as took a puff off a marijuana joint, or tried drugs person there is. So thanks to these ignorant PTA parents they have succeeded in raising ignorant nasty kids who have been ... Read more

It takes a very sad individual to make fun of people's disabilities, accents, or any other things that can't be helped.

True born Disabilities should never be made fun of, now, people who are well fit, smart, and in good health, get on disabilities to get money, and never work again, that is false! I seen many people, rather met many, that  can work, can do something? because I see them working in their yards, walking around in good condition, that is wrong. Kids that bully other kids in school because of disabilities, that to is wrong, and should be punished, with a good ol ass whipping, sorry, but it is truth.

This is just plain cruel. I hate kids that do this!

As rotten as this is,I've seen it.Kids in this culture seem to have a need to boost themselves by putting others down,for whatever reason they can find.If disability is there,they'll pounce on that.I suspect our materialistic and brainlessly macho values may have something to do with it.

One of my best friends fell into this category. I had to defend him so much, and had it not been for another friend who stopped me, I almost got into a phsyical fight with one of his bullies because he could not protect himself. It was awful for him most days, and we were only in the 3rd and 4th grades. I, unfortunately, am not able to keep in touch with him anymore, although another friend told me he's popular now. Apparently, instead of being picked on, he's now being manipulated by the only people who ever accepted him; he's become the school's resident drug-dealer. And sometimes, I wonder, had I stayed and been his friend, would he have thought he had to turn to the drug addicts at the school for companionship? I may never know, but hopefully he's gotten out of that and is actually being accepted for who he actually is, rather than who he thinks people want him to be.

Never ever was able to stomach seeing this go on/happen. I was always the first one to take up for them...to a fault as a youngster. Got into a couple fo tassles over it.

Just because certain kids are disabled doesn't make them any less human than the next person.