Hi lovelies! I was recently watching Coronation street (a british soap opera) and so there was this girl on there who had been left paralysed due to the recent bus crash... Now I understand the fact that losing the ability to walk is hard and may leave you feeling depressed as you think you can't do everything you used to be able to do.... Which is you know understandable!
But I suffer from a disability known as Sacral Angenesis as well as Cordial regression syndrome which for me isn't as bad as it sounds as I can still do the stuff I want to do!
But the thing that really upsets me in the media is, the fact that disability is always seen as this really depressing thing and due to being in a wheelchair or paralysed etc you have to sit there and be depressed I could understand that but only if the character was left not even being able to talk.
But what the media leave out is the fact that even though this character is disabled she can still go to school, play in her favourite sport i.e. Skiing. and she can still go on a shopping spree. The media seem to forget we are actually human we can be date-able but they seem to just see the chair/condition and not the person; Why is it like this?
I mean how inspiring would it be to have a disabled model or more actresses/ actors or singers with disabilities it shocks me how little there are and I just think it would be so inspiring for other people to see that and maybe just maybe more people would look past the stereotype that has been created.
However... I have seen one example of disability in the media this week, this was through a TV advert for a british clothing shop known as "Matalan" I saw a person with one arm on the ad I was shocked!
Not because she had one arm but because a person with a disability managed to make it onto a advert. Now may I just add she is also a youtuber (with her sister Amelia) on the youtube channel "The Mandeville sisters" and one of her dreams was actually to become a actress so for me this seems like a shining glitter ball of hope for her and the media, By the way her name is Grace!
I would also like to add I actually like to add I met Grace and Amelia when they came to film my youth group for a thing for the british science museum and they are both lovely and sweet and really funny!
Anyway I have to go now lovelies bye! feel free to comment on this issue and also tell me how your easter was BYYYYE
