[nabs-l] pop culture portrayals of disabilities

[Joshua Hendrickson]

There's also another book called Blind Sighted, note the word sighted
is S-I-G-H-T-E-D.  I forget the author, but I read it for a book club.
That book was about a high school boy who read to a lady who was
blind.

On 9/18/17, Vejas Vasiliauskas via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> A while back, a friend of mine showed me a bunch of what were supposed to be
> commedies and the first was related to blindness. Being sighted he found it
> funny, but I actually found it pretty upsetting. I can't recall the name but
> I'll ask him. But I remember that the idea was that there was a blind man
> who I believe was getting used to navigating his hotel room. When he had to
> wake up at night he got turned  around and walked to the wrong door. All of
> which would be totally understandable except that they mocked him by making
> it seem like it was really funny that he would go to the wrong door, and
> exaggerated the point so much that it was as if he was in a parallel world
> of some sort.
> Good luck,
> Vejas
>
>> On Sep 18, 2017, at 07:09, Sophie Trist via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear NABS friends,
>>
>> Hope everyone's Monday is gejting off to a good start. Next month, I will
>> be partnering with another student at my university to give a presentation
>> on how pop culture portrayals of disabilities create stereotypes and form
>> people's perceptions about us. I will be talking about portrayals of
>> people with physical disabilities, while the other student will be talking
>> about portrayals of mental disabilities. I have a few ideas (Daredevil,
>> Need to Breathe), but if anyone knows of a relatively modern book/movie/TV
>> show that portrays people with disabilities, your input would be super
>> helpful. It can be blindness, deafness, people in wheelchairs, whatever.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>> Sophie Trist
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