Disability Portrayal And The Media Today

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The first article I read was about disability portrayal and the media today. He talks about a show where the actor with a disability plays a character with a disability. That is great because it makes more sense to have someone disabled play a disabled part. A disabled person can not play a auto bodied role, so where is the fairness in that? He also talks about how disney made a movie about someone with a mental disability. Although it was played by a auto body actor, the story was authentic because it was told by the actually twin sister. I actually did see that movie a couple years ago. I enjoyed the movie and the storyline was good. He also said disability roles are the easiest way to a oscar. One of those movies if Forrest Gump. It is kinda sad that having to play being disabled is a way to get an oscar. Most disabled roles have sad stories, so it seems like them make you feel bad in order to win an oscar. In addition, movies are starting to add more people with disabilities as extras . This is encouraging for people with disabilities. Hopefully we start getting more lead roles about people with disabilities played by people disabilities. What does it show that when a person without a disability plays someone with a disability. Once that camera turns off they are no longer disabled. Having a disability is not something you can turn off and on. More recent movies have been good at modeling the life of an individual with a disability. It gives the audience a better feel of what people face and their experience with a disability. Although people with disabilities are not the ones playing the role, it is good that disabled roles are showing up more. Some roles are even inspired by people 's stories which gives it authenticity. ... ... middle of paper ... ...xual, and as being unable to participate in daily life. This is why we see disabled people the way we see them. If we are fed these stereotypes everytime we see a disabled person, eventually we are gonna assume all disabled people are either of these ten stereotypes. The media needs to change what they give out and realize being disabled is not anything what they think it is. In conclusion, stereotypes are always going to come in different shapes and forms. We may not realize it at first, but we need to know they are there. In order for stereotypes to be broken, people need to stop feeding people what they think it is to be something or someone they have no idea about. Stereotypes come from uneducated biased people and with that cause a lot of false information. We need to change what information we give out because we are hurting other humans with our assumptions.

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